From: Pankaj Bansal <pankaj.bansal@nxp.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] ARM: dts: Freescale: re-license device tree files under X11
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 03:27:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM0PR0402MB3940F7493BAFEFAED64EDD79F1EA0@AM0PR0402MB3940.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180116030221.GL4660@bill-the-cat>
HI,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Rini [mailto:trini at konsulko.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 8:32 AM
> To: Pankaj Bansal <pankaj.bansal@nxp.com>
> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de; albert.u.boot at aribaud.net; Priyanka Jain
> <priyanka.jain@nxp.com>; Varun Sethi <V.Sethi@nxp.com>; Mingkai Hu
> <mingkai.hu@nxp.com>
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] ARM: dts: Freescale: re-license device tree files
> under X11
>
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 08:03:54AM +0530, Pankaj Bansal wrote:
>
> > The current GPL only licensing on the device trees makes it very
> > impractical for other software components licensed under another
> > license.
> >
> > To make it easier to reuse them, re-license the the device trees for
> > Freescale (now NXP) SoCs and boards under license X11.
> >
> > Cc: Priyanka Jain <priyanka.jain@nxp.com>
> > Cc: Mingkai Hu <mingkai.hu@nxp.com>
> > Cc: York Sun <york.sun@nxp.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Pankaj Bansal <pankaj.bansal@nxp.com>
> > ---
> > arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1012a-frdm.dts | 2 +-
> > arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1012a-frdm.dtsi | 2 +-
> > arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1012a-qds.dts | 2 +-
> > arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1012a-qds.dtsi | 2 +-
> > arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1012a-rdb.dts | 2 +-
> > arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1012a-rdb.dtsi | 4 +---
> > arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1012a.dtsi | 2 +-
> > arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1043a-qds-duart.dts | 2 +-
> > arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1043a-qds-lpuart.dts | 2 +-
> > arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1043a-qds.dtsi | 4 +---
> > arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1043a-rdb.dts | 4 +---
> > arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1043a.dtsi | 4 +---
> > arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1046a-qds-duart.dts | 2 +-
> > arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1046a-qds-lpuart.dts | 2 +-
> > arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1046a-qds.dtsi | 4 +---
> > arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1046a-rdb.dts | 4 +---
> > arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1046a.dtsi | 4 +---
> > arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1088a-qds.dts | 2 +-
> > arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1088a-rdb.dts | 2 +-
> > arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1088a.dtsi | 2 +-
> > arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls2080a-qds.dts | 2 +-
> > arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls2080a-rdb.dts | 2 +-
> > arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls2080a.dtsi | 2 +-
> > arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls2081a-rdb.dts | 2 +-
> > arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls2088a-rdb-qspi.dts | 2 +-
> > 25 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
>
> How do these changes match up to the kernel? Thanks!
The kernel dts files are GPLv2 and X11 dual licensed. E.g.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/tree/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1046a.dtsi
To avoid dual licensing, we used X11 only. See
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#X11License
>
> --
> Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-16 3:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-16 2:33 [U-Boot] [PATCH] ARM: dts: Freescale: re-license device tree files under X11 Pankaj Bansal
2018-01-16 3:02 ` Tom Rini
2018-01-16 3:27 ` Pankaj Bansal [this message]
2018-01-16 3:28 ` Tom Rini
2018-01-16 5:06 ` Pankaj Bansal
2018-01-17 19:26 ` Leo Li
2018-01-18 1:40 ` Tom Rini
2018-01-18 4:13 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] ARM: dts: Freescale: re-license device tree files under GPLv2+/X11 Pankaj Bansal
2018-01-18 13:03 ` Tom Rini
2018-01-18 13:15 ` Pankaj Bansal
2018-01-18 13:23 ` Tom Rini
2018-01-18 14:45 ` Pankaj Bansal
2018-01-19 17:01 ` York Sun
2018-01-19 17:03 ` Tom Rini
2018-01-22 10:02 ` Pankaj Bansal
2018-01-22 13:13 ` Tom Rini
2018-01-24 19:13 ` York Sun
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