[U-Boot] Individual files dual licenses

[York Sun]

On 01/18/2018 09:59 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 05:25:01PM +0000, York Sun wrote:
> 
>> Tom and Wolfgang,
>>
>> Do we have guideline on dual licensing the code in U-Boot? If I collect
>> consent from all contributors and copyright holders to a particular
>> file, am I able to re-license the file? If yes, how to determine the
>> list of contributors?
> 
> In general, I think you would use 'git log' to see who contributed to a
> given file, and make sure that everyone who authored a change signed off
> on the license change.

Thanks.

> 
> With regards to dts files, this is another reason I would like to see
> that done as a strict re-sync with Linux rather than a stand-alone
> change.  Saying we're importing file X from the kernel at revision Y
> makes the license change pretty easy to spot and justify.
> 

For the dts files, they already exist in U-Boot. Can the team still say
"importing" from Linux? The files in U-Boot is only a small subset of
those in Linux.

York