Re: [PATCH 2/5] arm64, thunder: Add initial dts for Cavium Thunder SoC

From: Robert Richter
Date: Thu Jul 31 2014 - 07:34:03 EST


On 31.07.14 12:24:13, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 July 2014, Robert Richter wrote:
> > +/*
> > + * Cavium Thunder DTS file
> > + *
> > + * Copyright (C) 2013, Cavium Inc.
> > + *
> > + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> > + * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
> > + * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
> > + * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
> > + */
>
> I think it makes sense to use a permissive license for these files here,
> since board vendors may want to include a copy of the binary in their
> firmware, which isn't necessarily GPL compatible.
>
> What is Cavium's interest in making this GPL?

See my response to Rob's mail on this.

-Robert
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