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From: Leo Li <leoyang.li@nxp.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] ARM: dts: Freescale: re-license device tree files under X11
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 19:26:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM4PR0401MB1699B35790E41C872928F8728FE90@AM4PR0401MB1699.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM0PR0402MB39407F5423070F7F56FEDB08F1EA0@AM0PR0402MB3940.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com>



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pankaj Bansal
> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2018 11:06 PM
> To: Leo Li <leoyang.li@nxp.com>
> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de; albert.u.boot at aribaud.net; Tom Rini
> <trini@konsulko.com>; 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
> 
> ++ Leo
> 
> Hi Leo. Can you please reply to this question ?
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tom Rini [mailto:trini at konsulko.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 8:59 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 03:27:09AM +0000, Pankaj Bansal wrote:
> > > 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.
> > > gi t/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
> >
> > Why would we not want to match the kernel here?

As we are working with Qualcomm for the potential acquisition, their legal team mentioned that they are against using dual license.  So as we are updating the license we would like to take that concern too.

Regards,
Leo

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-17 19:26 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
2018-01-16  3:28     ` Tom Rini
2018-01-16  5:06       ` Pankaj Bansal
2018-01-17 19:26         ` Leo Li [this message]
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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