From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751823AbaKJIMR (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Nov 2014 03:12:17 -0500 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.10]:53311 "EHLO mout.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751423AbaKJIMP (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Nov 2014 03:12:15 -0500 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Scott Branden Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Olof Johansson , Christian Daudt , Matt Porter , Russell King , Broadcom Kernel Feedback List , Mike Turquette , Alex Elder , Rob Herring , Pawel Moll , Mark Rutland , Ian Campbell , Kumar Gala , Andrew Morton , "David S. Miller" , Joe Perches , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Antti Palosaari , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , Ray Jui , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , JD Zheng , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 4/8] ARM: dts: Enable Broadcom Cygnus SoC Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 09:11:30 +0100 Message-ID: <2221359.WPjXKG5OT3@wuerfel> User-Agent: KMail/4.11.5 (Linux/3.16.0-10-generic; KDE/4.11.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <54604A71.1010000@broadcom.com> References: <5982323.RDuqIHPULA@wuerfel> <54604A71.1010000@broadcom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:mr1laAIe0MmsJY/DkYPnxI28m5tZlZCLuoZzwxULzwB S0+PtMFhjJI2Meov4/gM2oglz+7PWRKWx2gspysbg2ZcNSoRBw wVIQ44Y0OVqsRBNvSKJrFUjyS8wrJpS7Q+v99VHI8VWyXGs9CY a0ZBvvUhXBsh0ZVcoQN8A55XbVvIRFVwjmP5dW4leNsos0XSmi tT/VJW282smGS51E5lJIqxDqS54oFPhntnckwWo5mBEXF4HhNi nAxxk8VkCPQbC2mV/Ox/yhV1XGhzE7ejC1ayJJ8BfM7qkl9nI/ F+ma/AoBmqCeF2p0w3oNSNBB59bDVnioWCHFY7G0MXWquNu/jr otin18oWDYmwWpS9g4vw= X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 09 November 2014 21:17:37 Scott Branden wrote: > On 14-11-09 12:38 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Sunday 09 November 2014 09:23:11 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > >> On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 10:49:09PM -0800, Olof Johansson wrote: > >>>>>> +/* > >>>>>> + * Copyright 2014 Broadcom Corporation. All rights reserved. > >>>>>> + * > >>>>>> + * Unless you and Broadcom execute a separate written software license > >>>>>> + * agreement governing use of this software, this software is licensed > >>>>>> to you > >>>>>> + * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as > >>>>>> + * published by the Free Software Foundation version 2. > >>>>>> + * > >>>>>> + * This program is distributed "as is" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY of any > >>>>>> + * kind, whether express or implied; without even the implied warranty > >>>>>> + * of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the > >>>>>> + * GNU General Public License for more details. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> We ask for new DT contents to be added with dual BSD/GPL license, to > >>>>> allow for reuse of the DT data structures in other projects as well. > >>>>> There's currently a lot of activity going on relicensing the current > >>>>> files so I recommend sorting it out before they are added if you can. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> This may take more time than you think. I am going to have to go through > >>>> legal to get such a license created. Also, why would you need dual license? > >>>> If it is BSD that should serve both purposes? > >>> > >>> I haven't followed the discussion close enough to know if there's been > >>> discussion about single-license BSD vs dual BSD/GPL. > > > > I think for all practical purposes, BSD and dual BSD/GPL is the same and > > listing it as dual was meant as a clarification to make it easier to see > > that all files in the kernel are GPLv2 compatible. > A dual BSD/GPL may involve having me get a lawyer to create such a > header. I would prefer to leave it as GPL for now until some concrete > decision has finally been made on this by the rest of the community? > Or, I can put it as BSD right now if that helps? I would prefer a pure BSD header for the moment over a pure GPL header. The last thing we want is to force other operating systems to create another set of dts files for the same hardware. Arnd