Re: [PATCH V2 00/16] arm64: dts: ti: Additional licensing and clarification

From: Rob Herring
Date: Mon Jan 22 2024 - 11:50:46 EST


On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 08:55:23AM -0600, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> Thank you all for the detailed acks on various patches on V1,
> consolidated all of these with V2 and noted some missing acks below.
> Since it has been 12 days since I posted v1 and v6.8-rc1 is now
> tagged, looks like a good time to refresh the series.
>
> As part of my 2023 LPC talk[1] about the difficulty in ensuring
> device tree is same across multiple s/w ecosystems, I mentioned about
> Licensing, and Rob had indicated that other SoC vendors have MIT
> license option that allows co-existance with Apache.
>
> So, bunch of internal paper work later (during which GPL-2.0-only
> had to be retained due to certain user community), here is the
> update to sync TI K3 device trees with addition of MIT license in
> addition to existing GPL-2.0 license.
>
> After querying BeagleBoard Foundation folks, they'd also like to
> follow suit, so those platforms have been added to the list as well.
>
> While at this, clarify existing licenses to be compatible with latest
> SPDX specifications for iot2050 and phycore.
>
> Verdin platforms look already sane, so no action required there.
>
> The CC list is based on (Since I am representing @ti.com for this
> series):
> git log --no-merges --pretty="%ae" $files|grep -v "@ti.com"|sort -u
>
> Requesting Acked by from the CC list at the earliest so that we can
> merge this for next baseline. - patches 6, 8 and 10 need some
> love.
>
> - "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx> (patch #6, #8)
> - Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> (patch #6)
> - Peng Fan <peng.fan@xxxxxxx> (patch #8)
> - Jerome Neanne <jneanne@xxxxxxxxxxxx> (patch #8, #10)
>
> Changes since V1:
> * Just picked up acks, most patches are clean now except for 6, 8 and
> 10.
> * As requested, Switched Phytec license from GPL2.0-only to Adding MIT
> along with it.
>
> V1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240110140903.4090946-1-nm@xxxxxx/
>
>
> Cc: "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ayush Singh <ayushdevel1325@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Chao Zeng <chao.zeng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Esteban Blanc <eblanc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Garrett Giordano <ggiordano@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Guillaume La Roque <glaroque@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jason Kridner <jkridner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jerome Neanne <jneanne@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Julien Panis <jpanis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Le Jin <le.jin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Matthias Schiffer <matthias.schiffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peng Fan <peng.fan@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Pierre Gondois <pierre.gondois@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Robert Nelson <robertcnelson@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Roger Quadros <rogerq@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ronald Wahl <ronald.wahl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sarah Walker <sarah.walker@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Wadim Egorov <w.egorov@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Nishanth Menon (16):
> arm64: dts: ti: Use https for urls
> arm64: dts: ti: k3-am62a7: Add MIT license along with GPL-2.0
> arm64: dts: ti: k3-am625: Add MIT license along with GPL-2.0
> arm64: dts: ti: k3-am62p: Add MIT license along with GPL-2.0
> arm64: dts: ti: k3-am64: Add MIT license along with GPL-2.0
> arm64: dts: ti: k3-am65: Add MIT license along with GPL-2.0
> arm64: dts: ti: k3-j7200: Add MIT license along with GPL-2.0
> arm64: dts: ti: k3-j721e: Add MIT license along with GPL-2.0
> arm64: dts: ti: k3-j721s2: Add MIT license along with GPL-2.0
> arm64: dts: ti: k3-j784s4: Add MIT license along with GPL-2.0
> arm64: dts: ti: k3-pinctrl: Add MIT license along with GPL-2.0
> arm64: dts: ti: k3-serdes: Add MIT license along with GPL-2.0
> arm64: dts: ti: beagle*: Add MIT license along with GPL-2.0
> arm64: dts: ti: phycore*: Add MIT license along with GPL-2.0
> arm64: dts: ti: iot2050*: Clarify GPL-2.0 as GPL-2.0-only
> arm64: dts: ti: Makefile: Clarify GPL-2.0 as GPL-2.0-only

For the series:

Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>