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Date:   Tue, 21 Mar 2023 16:53:37 -0500
From:   Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
To:     Dmitry Rokosov <ddrokosov@sberdevices.ru>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] checkpatch: add missing bindings license check
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On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 11:33:50PM +0300, Dmitry Rokosov wrote:
> All headers from 'include/dt-bindings/' must be verified by checkpatch
> together with Documentation bindings, because all of them are part of
> the whole DT bindings system.
> 
> The requirement is dual licensed and matching pattern:
>     /GPL-2\.0(?:-only|-or-later|\+)? (?:OR|or) BSD-2-Clause/

This is not correct. The headers can and should be licensed like the dts 
files which are (unfortunately) all over the place and differ from the 
bindings.

Also, GPL-2.0-or-later is neither desired nor encouraged. 

Rob