Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933793AbbFVM5i (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jun 2015 08:57:38 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:51070 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933614AbbFVM5T (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jun 2015 08:57:19 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 14:57:16 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Rob Landley Cc: Yann Droneaud , Rob Herring , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Subject: Re: Device Tree Blob (DTB) licence Message-ID: <20150622125716.GC26143@xo-6d-61-c0.localdomain> References: <1430820315.19516.26.camel@opteya.com> <1432289148.5304.58.camel@opteya.com> <1432322832.5304.63.camel@opteya.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1203 Lines: 27 On Mon 2015-05-25 02:14:28, Rob Landley wrote: > On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Yann Droneaud wrote: > > I've added licensing@fsf.ogrg in Cc: in my previous message to have an > > advice on this subject, but I failed to notice licensing@fsf.org > > is not a mailing list: I was assigned request ID [gnu.org #1017262]. > > > > Regards. > > They're also not an unbiased source. Their job is to reply "you should > license it under GPLv3" without actually looking at your message. > (This is a slight oversimplification, they may instead recomend the > GFDL. They will never _not_ recommend one of their licenses.) Actually, I got FSF to change license on piece of code from GPLv2 to LGPLv2 before. They are not completely evil :-). > Personally, I'm sad we're starting to get ACPI for arm but if device > tree data files are only available under GPL, people will hold their > nose and deploy ACPI. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/