linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 14/14] dt-bindings: reset: Convert to yaml

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Message-ID: <CAL_Jsq+g=oXz+j-D_xpMuiaumM5akKpJcdhm8LgRhuE0Uf1_bQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 25 Aug 2022 10:53:05 -0500
From:   Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
To:     Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>
Cc:     Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@...gutronix.de>,
        "devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>,
        Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@...libre.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/14] dt-bindings: reset: Convert to yaml

On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 8:08 PM Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com> wrote:
>
> Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org> wrote at Thursday, April 7, 2022 2:04 PM:
> > On Thu, Apr 07, 2022 at 05:43:38PM +0200, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> > > Convert the common reset controller and reset consumer device tree
> > > bindings to YAML schema.
> >
> > In general, common bindings should go in DT schema repo:
> >
> > https://github.com/devicetree-org/dt-schema/blob/main/dtschema/schemas/reset/reset.yaml
> >
> > Though part of the issue is dtschema is dual licensed and all the
> > exsting text is GPL2, so permission to relicense is needed. That's why
> > the schemas are just the schema and little description ATM. Shouldn't
> > be too hard here with Stephen/NVIDIA being the only copyright holder.
>
> All the work I did for NVIDIA should be (c) NVIDIA, i.e.:
>
> # Copyright (c) 2012, NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
>
> I have checked with NVIDIA legal etc, and NVIDIA gives permission to
> relicense any file they hold copyright on within the
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings directory of the Linux kernel source
> tree to MIT-only, e.g. for inclusion into the new dtschema repository.

Great! However, the license for dtschema is BSD-2-Clause. Is BSD okay?
While MIT is similar and compatible, I'd prefer not to have a
proliferation of different licenses simply because people don't pay
attention when copying things.

There's another header relicensing now[1], gpio.h, which NVIDIA contributed to.

Rob

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220825104505.79718-1-etienne.carriere@linaro.org/