Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751808AbaKJS2c (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Nov 2014 13:28:32 -0500 Received: from mail-gw1-out.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.62]:4312 "EHLO mail-gw1-out.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751322AbaKJS2a (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Nov 2014 13:28:30 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.07,354,1413270000"; d="scan'208";a="50524484" Message-ID: <546103C8.3030905@broadcom.com> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:28:24 -0800 From: Scott Branden User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arnd Bergmann CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Olof Johansson , Christian Daudt , Matt Porter , Russell King , "Broadcom Kernel Feedback List" , Mike Turquette , Alex Elder , Rob Herring , Pawel Moll , Mark Rutland , Ian Campbell , "Kumar Gala" , Andrew Morton , "David S. Miller" , Joe Perches , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Antti Palosaari , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , Ray Jui , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , JD Zheng , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 4/8] ARM: dts: Enable Broadcom Cygnus SoC References: <5982323.RDuqIHPULA@wuerfel> <54604A71.1010000@broadcom.com> <2221359.WPjXKG5OT3@wuerfel> In-Reply-To: <2221359.WPjXKG5OT3@wuerfel> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 14-11-10 12:11 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Sunday 09 November 2014 21:17:37 Scott Branden wrote: >> On 14-11-09 12:38 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>> On Sunday 09 November 2014 09:23:11 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>>> On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 10:49:09PM -0800, Olof Johansson wrote: >>>>>>>> +/* >>>>>>>> + * Copyright 2014 Broadcom Corporation. All rights reserved. >>>>>>>> + * >>>>>>>> + * Unless you and Broadcom execute a separate written software license >>>>>>>> + * agreement governing use of this software, this software is licensed >>>>>>>> to you >>>>>>>> + * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as >>>>>>>> + * published by the Free Software Foundation version 2. >>>>>>>> + * >>>>>>>> + * This program is distributed "as is" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY of any >>>>>>>> + * kind, whether express or implied; without even the implied warranty >>>>>>>> + * of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the >>>>>>>> + * GNU General Public License for more details. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> We ask for new DT contents to be added with dual BSD/GPL license, to >>>>>>> allow for reuse of the DT data structures in other projects as well. >>>>>>> There's currently a lot of activity going on relicensing the current >>>>>>> files so I recommend sorting it out before they are added if you can. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> This may take more time than you think. I am going to have to go through >>>>>> legal to get such a license created. Also, why would you need dual license? >>>>>> If it is BSD that should serve both purposes? >>>>> >>>>> I haven't followed the discussion close enough to know if there's been >>>>> discussion about single-license BSD vs dual BSD/GPL. >>> >>> I think for all practical purposes, BSD and dual BSD/GPL is the same and >>> listing it as dual was meant as a clarification to make it easier to see >>> that all files in the kernel are GPLv2 compatible. >> A dual BSD/GPL may involve having me get a lawyer to create such a >> header. I would prefer to leave it as GPL for now until some concrete >> decision has finally been made on this by the rest of the community? >> Or, I can put it as BSD right now if that helps? > > I would prefer a pure BSD header for the moment over a pure GPL header. > The last thing we want is to force other operating systems to create > another set of dts files for the same hardware. I have changed the headers to pure BSD. I hope this is acceptable. > > Arnd > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/