linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] arm64: dts: realtek: Change dual-license from MIT to BSD

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Date:   Tue, 29 Oct 2019 05:39:23 +0100
From:   Andreas Färber <afaerber@...e.de>
To:     Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Cc:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        LAKML <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        linux-realtek-soc@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] arm64: dts: realtek: Change dual-license from MIT
 to BSD

Am 25.10.19 um 22:52 schrieb Rob Herring:
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 11:08 PM Andreas Färber <afaerber@...e.de> wrote:
>>
>> Move the SPDX-License-Identifier to the top line and update to SPDX 2.0.
>> While at it, switch from GPLv2+/MIT to GPLv2+/BSD2c before adding more.
>>
>> Suggested-by: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
>> Cc: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@...e.de>
>> ---
>>  v2: New
>>
>>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/realtek/rtd1295-zidoo-x9s.dts | 3 +--
>>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/realtek/rtd1295.dtsi          | 3 +--
>>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/realtek/rtd129x.dtsi          | 3 +--
>>  3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
> 
> It's really only schema files that I'm pushing towards BSD2C. Maybe in
> hindsight we should have done MIT as that's more common in the dts
> files.

After discussion with Rob about whether to drop this change I dropped
the misunderstood Suggested-by and applied this to linux-realtek.git
v5.5/dt64 anyway:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/afaerber/linux-realtek.git/log/?h=v5.5/dt64

I don't mind either license.

Thanks,
Andreas

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