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Date:   Wed, 2 May 2018 07:25:44 -0700
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: BCM5301X: Relicense most DTS files to the GPL
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On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 04:11:02PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
> 
> These files were created and ever touched by a group of three people
> only: Dan, Hauke and me. They were licensed under GNU/GPL or ISC.
> 
> Introducing and discussing SPDX-License-Identifier resulted in a
> conclusion that ISC is a not recommended license (see also a
> license-rules.rst). Moveover an old e-mail from Alan Cox was pointed
> which explained that dual licensing is a safer solution than depending
> on a common compatibility belief.
> 
> This commit switches most of BCM5301X DTS files to dual licensing using:
> 1) GPL 2.0+ to make sure they are compatible with Linux kernel
> 2) MIT to allow sharing with more permissive projects
> Both licenses belong to the preferred ones (see LICENSES/preferred/).
> 
> An attempt to relicense remaining files will be made separately and will
> require approve from more/other developers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>

Many thanks for doing this, it makes the license "confusion" a bit less
now :)

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>