[U-Boot] Individual files dual licenses
York Sun
york.sun at nxp.com
Thu Jan 18 18:09:22 UTC 2018
On 01/18/2018 10:04 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>
In this case, the contents of dts files are different from those in
Linux. The only thing imported this time is the dual license. Is it
still considered a re-sync?
York
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