Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752590AbbFANSR (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Jun 2015 09:18:17 -0400 Received: from 251.110.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.110.251]:48830 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751448AbbFANSK convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Jun 2015 09:18:10 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 14:17:30 +0100 From: One Thousand Gnomes To: Warner Losh Cc: Jeroen Hofstee , Yann Droneaud , Rob Herring , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org\" "@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: Device Tree Blob (DTB) licence Message-ID: <20150601141730.1c475095@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <8F98C0FD-D60D-46CB-A42D-10690A097573@bsdimp.com> References: <1430820315.19516.26.camel@opteya.com> <1432289148.5304.58.camel@opteya.com> <556A169E.8030909@myspectrum.nl> <8F98C0FD-D60D-46CB-A42D-10690A097573@bsdimp.com> 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=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 907 Lines: 18 > facts in a dts file. The GPL’d files aren’t stopping anybody from creating > proprietary software. People that really care will rewrite the files > from scratch anyway. People that don’t care.. well, one need look > no further than the difficulty of getting source code to different SoC > support packages for the kernel in the Android world to see how > much some people care about GPL compliance and how much > it really stops them from doing what they want. And at how many large companies follow the GPL and do provide sources, none of whom would probably have bothered otherwise.... Mostly effective is better than not trying in the first place. -- 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/