Re: [PATCH v8 4/8] ARM: dts: Enable Broadcom Cygnus SoC

From: Scott Branden
Date: Mon Nov 10 2014 - 13:28:34 EST


On 14-11-10 12:11 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Sunday 09 November 2014 21:17:37 Scott Branden wrote:
On 14-11-09 12:38 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Sunday 09 November 2014 09:23:11 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 10:49:09PM -0800, Olof Johansson wrote:
+/*
+ * Copyright 2014 Broadcom Corporation. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * Unless you and Broadcom execute a separate written software license
+ * agreement governing use of this software, this software is licensed
to you
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation version 2.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed "as is" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY of any
+ * kind, whether express or implied; without even the implied warranty
+ * of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.


We ask for new DT contents to be added with dual BSD/GPL license, to
allow for reuse of the DT data structures in other projects as well.
There's currently a lot of activity going on relicensing the current
files so I recommend sorting it out before they are added if you can.


This may take more time than you think. I am going to have to go through
legal to get such a license created. Also, why would you need dual license?
If it is BSD that should serve both purposes?

I haven't followed the discussion close enough to know if there's been
discussion about single-license BSD vs dual BSD/GPL.

I think for all practical purposes, BSD and dual BSD/GPL is the same and
listing it as dual was meant as a clarification to make it easier to see
that all files in the kernel are GPLv2 compatible.
A dual BSD/GPL may involve having me get a lawyer to create such a
header. I would prefer to leave it as GPL for now until some concrete
decision has finally been made on this by the rest of the community?
Or, I can put it as BSD right now if that helps?

I would prefer a pure BSD header for the moment over a pure GPL header.
The last thing we want is to force other operating systems to create
another set of dts files for the same hardware.
I have changed the headers to pure BSD. I hope this is acceptable.

Arnd


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