From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] arm64, thunder: Add initial dts for Cavium Thunder SoC
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 12:24:13 +0200
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Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
        Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
        Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk>,
        Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
        Radha Mohan Chintakuntla <rchintakuntla@cavium.com>,
        Robert Richter <rrichter@cavium.com>, devicetree@vger.kernel.org
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On Wednesday 30 July 2014, Robert Richter wrote:
> +/*
> + * Cavium Thunder DTS file
> + *
> + * Copyright (C) 2013, Cavium Inc.
> + *
> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> + * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
> + * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
> + * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
> + */

I think it makes sense to use a permissive license for these files here,
since board vendors may want to include a copy of the binary in their
firmware, which isn't necessarily GPL compatible.

What is Cavium's interest in making this GPL?

	Arnd
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