From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751452AbaKJFRq (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:17:46 -0500 Received: from mail-gw1-out.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.62]:49832 "EHLO mail-gw1-out.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750833AbaKJFRn (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:17:43 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.07,350,1413270000"; d="scan'208";a="50475935" Message-ID: <54604A71.1010000@broadcom.com> Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2014 21:17:37 -0800 From: Scott Branden User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arnd Bergmann , Greg Kroah-Hartman CC: 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 References: <20141109172311.GB738@kroah.com> <5982323.RDuqIHPULA@wuerfel> In-Reply-To: <5982323.RDuqIHPULA@wuerfel> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? > >>> At the very least, please start the process of getting it changed. >>> >>> Also, I see now that this isn't even a clean GPL v2, given "Unless you >>> and Broadcom..." language. I see the bnx2x driver had that in the >>> past, but none of the Kona contributions did. I strongly suggest >>> sticking to the normal copyrights here and not making things more >>> complicated than they have to. >> >> I'm thinking that the "unless you and Broadcom..." language really >> doesn't mean much other than what all other files in the kernel mean >> from what I can tell. This should just default to GPLv2 and everyone >> should be ok. > > I would hope so at least. It's certainly not obvious whether that means > Broadcom can give additional rights to someone over what someone else > contributed upstream, or worse if this becomes GPL-incompatible and > makes the kernel undistributable for anybody who has an additional > license agreement that doesn't give them all the rights that they already > had under the GPL. I'll change the header on these files so there are no disagreements. > > Arnd >