From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 2 May 2018 07:25:44 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: =?utf-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= Cc: Florian Fainelli , Hauke Mehrtens , Dan Haab , Dan Haab , Jon Mason , bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com, Rob Herring , Mark Rutland , Russell King , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, "Luis R . Rodriguez" , Thomas Gleixner , LKML , =?utf-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: BCM5301X: Relicense most DTS files to the GPL 2.0+ / MIT Message-ID: <20180502142544.GB10928@kroah.com> References: <20180502141102.31769-1-zajec5@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20180502141102.31769-1-zajec5@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.5 (2018-04-13) X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 04:11:02PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > From: Rafał Miłecki > > These files were created and ever touched by a group of three people > only: Dan, Hauke and me. They were licensed under GNU/GPL or ISC. > > Introducing and discussing SPDX-License-Identifier resulted in a > conclusion that ISC is a not recommended license (see also a > license-rules.rst). Moveover an old e-mail from Alan Cox was pointed > which explained that dual licensing is a safer solution than depending > on a common compatibility belief. > > This commit switches most of BCM5301X DTS files to dual licensing using: > 1) GPL 2.0+ to make sure they are compatible with Linux kernel > 2) MIT to allow sharing with more permissive projects > Both licenses belong to the preferred ones (see LICENSES/preferred/). > > An attempt to relicense remaining files will be made separately and will > require approve from more/other developers. > > Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki Many thanks for doing this, it makes the license "confusion" a bit less now :) Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman