Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752618AbbFANNz (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Jun 2015 09:13:55 -0400 Received: from 251.110.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.110.251]:48819 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751487AbbFANNr (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Jun 2015 09:13:47 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 14:12:40 +0100 From: One Thousand Gnomes To: David Lang Cc: "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Russell King - ARM Linux , Yann Droneaud , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Rob Landley Subject: Re: Device Tree Blob (DTB) licence Message-ID: <20150601141240.216d8146@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <1430820315.19516.26.camel@opteya.com> <1432289148.5304.58.camel@opteya.com> <1432322832.5304.63.camel@opteya.com> <55670AD4.8020705@melag.de> <20150528133429.GD2067@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <556747E4.6070403@melag.de> <20150529064741.GB25351@1wt.eu> <55684F07.7050402@melag.de> Organization: Intel Corporation X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1 (GTK+ 2.24.28; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1073 Lines: 24 > not true, with a proprietary bios it's a clear "pay this much money and don't > worry about it" while with GPL there's a nagging fear that someone you never > heard of may sue you a decade from now claiming you need to give them the source > to your OS. Not really no - the number of companies who bought proprietary products, resold them and then got sued because their supplier was cavalier is huge. > note, this whole discussion assumes that the DTB is even copyrightable. Since > it's intended to be strictly a functional description of what the hardware is > able to do, that could be questioned I imagine you can write a DTB that is copyrightable and one that isn't. However this is all missing one important point. Whoever wrote their DTB gets to decide how they license it. It's nobody else's business. Alan -- 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/