[U-Boot] Individual files dual licenses

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 06:02:44PM +0000, York Sun wrote:
> 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.

Yes, if it's a strict replace file A with contents of the same file from
Linux, it's re-importing.  I thought these boards had already re-synced
before but perhaps not?  It's something we do from time to time on other
platforms.

-- 
Tom
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