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

[Tom Rini]

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 at nxp.com>
> > Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de; albert.u.boot at aribaud.net; Priyanka Jain
> > <priyanka.jain at nxp.com>; Varun Sethi <V.Sethi at nxp.com>; Mingkai Hu
> > <mingkai.hu at 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 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>
> > > ---
> > >  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

Why would we not want to match the kernel here?

-- 
Tom
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