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Date:   Fri, 22 Dec 2017 11:43:33 +0100
From:   Andreas Färber <afaerber@...e.de>
To:     Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:     Türk, Jan <Jan.Tuerk@...rion.de>,
        'Rob Herring' <robh@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>,
        Sascha Hauer <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
        Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@....com>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>,
        Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>,
        SZ Lin <sz.lin@...a.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org" <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        LinuxArmKernelMailingListe <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] ARM: dts: Add support for emtrion emCON-MX6 series

Hi,

Am 22.12.2017 um 11:40 schrieb Alexandre Belloni:
> On 22/12/2017 at 11:34:31 +0100, Türk, Jan wrote:
>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6q-emcon.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6q-
>>> emcon.dtsi
>>>> new file mode 100644
>>>> index 000000000000..64fc0cd74c05
>>>> --- /dev/null
>>>> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6q-emcon.dtsi
>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
>>>> +/*
>>>> + * Copyright (C) 2017 emtrion GmbH
>>>> + * Author: Jan Tuerk  <jan.tuerk@...rion.com>
>>>> + *
>>>> + * The code contained herein is licensed under the GNU General Public
>>>> + * License. You may obtain a copy of the GNU General Public License
>>>> + * Version 2 or later at the following locations:
>>>> + *
>>>> + * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.html
>>>> + * http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
>>>
>>> You don't need this if...
>>
>> I've got a little different point of view on this since the OSS Europe 2017 - part of gpl2 following.
>>
>> GPLv2-Para1 (=>highlighted<=) :
>> 1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium,
>>  provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an 
>> => appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; <=
>> keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty;
>>  and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program.
>>
>> After reviewing this I think apparently I should include the Warranty disclaimer as well.
>> Examples could be found  in:
>> arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6q-tbs2910.dts
>> and
>> arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6q-zii-rdu2.dts
>>
> 
> The license is already fully included in COPYING with the warranty
> disclaimer.
> 
>>>
>>>> + *
>>>> + * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>>>
>>> You have this.
>>>
>>> Also, the rules around this are getting a bit stricter saying the SPDX
>>> tag should be the first line of the file using a C++ style comment.
>>>
>> I'll change it for v3 of this patch however it will end up like this:
>> //SPDX-License...
> 
> That should be /* SPDX-License */, // is for c files.

Got any reference for that? Since we're using the C preprocessor before
feeding them to dtc, we can use the same // style for both, builds fine.

Only for my private DT overlay files that I use directly with dtc I
couldn't adopt that style.

Regards,
Andreas

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