Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030661AbbD1QfH (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2015 12:35:07 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f179.google.com ([209.85.212.179]:37355 "EHLO mail-wi0-f179.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030378AbbD1QfF (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2015 12:35:05 -0400 Message-ID: <553FB6B4.8020401@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 18:35:00 +0200 From: Sebastian Hesselbarth User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 To: Russell King - ARM Linux CC: Jason Cooper , Ezequiel Garcia , Andrew Lunn , Jean-Francois Moine , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: mvebu: dove: Relicense the device tree under GPLv2+/X11 References: <1430125744-3550-1-git-send-email-sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com> <20150428155910.GD12732@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20150428155910.GD12732@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> 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 Content-Length: 1191 Lines: 29 On 28.04.2015 17:59, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 11:09:04AM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote: >> The current implicit GPL only licensing on the device tree makes it >> very impractical for other software components licensed under another >> license. >> >> In order to make it easier for them to reuse our device trees, >> relicense our device trees under a GPL/X11 dual-license. >> [...] >> so I decided to keep the whole relicensing in a single patch. Please send >> your Acked-by's in reply to this patch if you are happy with the relicensing. > > I normally don't include the "or later version" for my license changes > as I've only accepted to contribute under the terms of GPLv2. Ok, I guess this is a NACK for GPLv2+ but an Acked-by if we limit the GPL part to GPLv2 only? If so, is everybody else who already Acked the GPLv2+ part also fine with reducing the GPL version to "version 2 only" ? Sebastian -- 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/