[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] ARM: dts: Freescale: re-license device tree files under GPLv2+/X11

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Thu Jan 18 13:03:57 UTC 2018


On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 09:43:33AM +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 GPLv2+/X11 dual license.
> 
> Same trend is followed in linux.
> 
> Cc: Priyanka Jain <priyanka.jain at nxp.com>
> Cc: Mingkai Hu <mingkai.hu at nxp.com>
> Cc: York Sun <york.sun at nxp.com>
> Signed-off-by: Pankaj Bansal <pankaj.bansal at nxp.com>
> ---
> 
> Notes:
>     V2:
>     - Change license from X11 only to GPL2.0+/X11 dual license.
>     - Updated the commit message accordingly.

OK.  But what does the kernel have for these exact files?  If it's
GPL2.0+/X11 dual, then this is just a normal sync with Linux Kernel
v4.xx and you should say that in the commit message.  If you haven't
gotten these merged to a Linux Kernel release, are they in -next there?
Thanks!

-- 
Tom
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