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

[Pankaj Bansal]

++ 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 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 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.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?
> 
> --
> Tom