Re: [PATCH] dt-binding: gpio: publish binding IDs under dual license

From: Rob Herring
Date: Thu Aug 25 2022 - 12:05:35 EST


On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 5:45 AM Etienne Carriere
<etienne.carriere@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Changes gpio.h DT binding header file to be published under GPLv2 or
> BSD-3-Clause license terms. This change allows these GPIO generic
> bindings header file to be used in software components as bootloaders
> and OSes that are not published under GPLv2 terms.
>
> All contributors to gpio.h file in copy.
>
> Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>

We have NVIDIA permission for anything in bindings and NVIDIA
relicensed the irq headers, so I think it shouldn't be a problem.

> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

FYI, There is blanket approval from Linaro to relicense DT files.

> Cc: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I don't think a blank line is copyrightable.

> Cc: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Nuno Sá <nuno.sa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Signed-off-by: Etienne Carriere <etienne.carriere@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/dt-bindings/gpio/gpio.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)