[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] ARM: dts: Freescale: re-license device tree files under GPLv2+/X11

[Pankaj Bansal]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Rini [mailto:trini at konsulko.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2018 10:33 PM
> To: York Sun <york.sun at nxp.com>
> Cc: Pankaj Bansal <pankaj.bansal at nxp.com>; u-boot at lists.denx.de;
> albert.u.boot at aribaud.net; Varun Sethi <V.Sethi at nxp.com>; Leo Li
> <leoyang.li at nxp.com>; Priyanka Jain <priyanka.jain at nxp.com>; Mingkai Hu
> <mingkai.hu at nxp.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: dts: Freescale: re-license device tree files under
> GPLv2+/X11
> 
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 05:01:14PM +0000, York Sun wrote:
> > On 01/18/2018 06:45 AM, Pankaj Bansal wrote:
> > >>
> > >> OK, good.  But there's
> > >> http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/U-
> > >> Boot/Patches#Attributing_Code_Copyrights_Sign
> > >> and you need to say what kernel you're syncing this file against
> > >> (since there shouldn't be anything U-Boot specific in any of these
> > >> files) so it's clear for the next person to come along and sync them.
> Thanks!
> > >>
> > >
> > > I am not syncing the files from linux to u-boot. I am just changing the
> license similar to commit 13b2ba1a11. There is no functional change in the
> commit.
> > >
> >
> > Tom,
> >
> > This is the case I explained in another email. These dts files are a
> > subset of the those in Linux. This patch is not syncing with Linux to
> > get the identical files, but to change the license to GPLv2 and X11.
> >
> > We have been maintaining these dts files in U-Boot and they have been
> > different from Linux from the beginning. If you don't disagree, I tend
> > to accept this patch for dual licensing.
> 
> OK.  While I would encourage use of the same dts in both cases, it's not my
> maintenance burden here, so if that's how you want to go, that's OK with
> me.  And so long as only NXP/Freescale/etc people have made changes to the
> dts/dtsi files, it would be fine for NXP/Freescale/etc to update the license
> terms.

Thanks Tom. I have checked in git logs that freescale/nxp employees are the only one who have made changes to these dts/dtsi files.
Can you please merge these changes in mainline ?

Thanks & Regards,
Pankaj Bansal

> 
> --
> Tom