On Mon 2015-05-25 02:14:28, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Yann Droneaud wrote:
> > I've added licens...@fsf.ogrg in Cc: in my previous message to have an
> > advice on this subject, but I failed to notice licens...@fsf.org
> > is not a mailing list: I was assigned request I
> On Jun 1, 2015, at 7:12 AM, One Thousand Gnomes
> wrote:
>
>> not true, with a proprietary bios it's a clear "pay this much money and don't
>> worry about it" while with GPL there's a nagging fear that someone you never
>> heard of may sue you a decade from now claiming you need to give them
> facts in a dts file. The GPL’d files aren’t stopping anybody from creating
> proprietary software. People that really care will rewrite the files
> from scratch anyway. People that don’t care.. well, one need look
> no further than the difficulty of getting source code to different SoC
> support
> not true, with a proprietary bios it's a clear "pay this much money and don't
> worry about it" while with GPL there's a nagging fear that someone you never
> heard of may sue you a decade from now claiming you need to give them the
> source
> to your OS.
Not really no - the number of compan
> On May 30, 2015, at 1:59 PM, Jeroen Hofstee wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 22-05-15 12:05, Yann Droneaud wrote:
>> Le mardi 05 mai 2015 à 11:41 -0500, Rob Herring a écrit :
>>> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 5:05 AM, Yann Droneaud
>>> wrote:
I believe Device Tree Blob (.dtb file) built from kernel's Dev
Hi,
On 22-05-15 12:05, Yann Droneaud wrote:
Le mardi 05 mai 2015 à 11:41 -0500, Rob Herring a écrit :
On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 5:05 AM, Yann Droneaud
wrote:
I believe Device Tree Blob (.dtb file) built from kernel's Device
Tree
Sources (.dts, which #include .dtsi, which #include .h) using
Devic
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 12:16 AM, David Lang wrote:
>> If the DTS license would be a problem, it would be worse w/ ACPI
>> and any proprietary firmware/BIOSes.
>
> not true, with a proprietary bios it's a clear "pay this much money and
> don't worry about it" while with GPL there's a nagging fear
> On May 29, 2015, at 11:10 PM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
> wrote:
>
> Am 29.05.2015 um 05:31 schrieb Rob Landley:
>
> >> What's the big deal with having DTS/DTB under GPL ?
>>
>> One problem is that there's no such thing as "The GPL" anymore.
>
> There are different versions. The ker
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On Fri, 29 May 2015, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
And why should they fear "poisoning" ?
Search for "GPL contamination", the problem is quite common, GPL
can turn anything GPL-compatible into GPL. So for a non-GPL project
it's very hard to adopt GPL code.
Yes, that's the whole pur
Am 29.05.2015 um 05:31 schrieb Rob Landley:
>> What's the big deal with having DTS/DTB under GPL ?
One problem is that there's no such thing as "The GPL" anymore.
There are different versions. The kernel source clearly states
GPLv2 (I, personally, would prefer v3 to prevent Tivoization)
The
Am 29.05.2015 um 08:47 schrieb Willy Tarreau:
Hi,
It's really quite simple. Other open source projects won't touch
_our_ DTB with a barge pole through fear of GPL contamination.
Which other foss projects do you have in mind ?
Any other OS that's not GPL'd and that might be able to run on t
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 06:52:52PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
wrote:
> Am 28.05.2015 um 15:34 schrieb Russell King - ARM Linux:
>
> >>What's the big deal with having DTS/DTB under GPL ?
> >
> >It's really quite simple. Other open source projects won't touch
> >_our_ DTB with a barge
2015-05-28 7:32 GMT-05:00 Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult :
> Am 25.05.2015 um 09:14 schrieb Rob Landley:
>
>> Personally, I'm sad we're starting to get ACPI for arm but if device
>> tree data files are only available under GPL, people will hold their
>> nose and deploy ACPI.
>
>
> What's the big
Am 28.05.2015 um 15:34 schrieb Russell King - ARM Linux:
What's the big deal with having DTS/DTB under GPL ?
It's really quite simple. Other open source projects won't touch
_our_ DTB with a barge pole through fear of GPL contamination.
Which other foss projects do you have in mind ?
And wh
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 02:32:20PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
wrote:
> Am 25.05.2015 um 09:14 schrieb Rob Landley:
>
> >Personally, I'm sad we're starting to get ACPI for arm but if device
> >tree data files are only available under GPL, people will hold their
> >nose and deploy ACPI
Am 25.05.2015 um 09:14 schrieb Rob Landley:
Personally, I'm sad we're starting to get ACPI for arm but if device
tree data files are only available under GPL, people will hold their
nose and deploy ACPI.
What's the big deal with having DTS/DTB under GPL ?
cu
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Am 22.05.2015 um 18:26 schrieb Rob Herring:
Hi,
> Ideally, dtb files are shipped with firmware separately from the OS.
> You should be able to run multiple OS's with that dtb. There is often
desire or "requirements" to not have GPL code in firmware.
I dont see that begin shipped *with* the fi
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 02:14:28AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> Personally, I'm sad we're starting to get ACPI for arm
Maybe it was the only solution found to make this platform start to
misbehave like a regular PC and get it even more widely adopted :-)
Willy
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On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Yann Droneaud wrote:
> I've added licens...@fsf.ogrg in Cc: in my previous message to have an
> advice on this subject, but I failed to notice licens...@fsf.org
> is not a mailing list: I was assigned request ID [gnu.org #1017262].
>
> Regards.
They're also not an
BSD, GPLv2).
> >
> > I imagine the includes cause some licensing discrepancies if you
> > dug
> > into it.
> >
>
> It's a pity, and it's probably something to sort out.
>
> DTB files produced as part of kernel compilation should have a we
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 5:05 AM, Yann Droneaud wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le mardi 05 mai 2015 à 11:41 -0500, Rob Herring a écrit :
>> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 5:05 AM, Yann Droneaud
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > I believe Device Tree Blob (.dtb file) built from kernel's Device
>> > Tree
>> > Sources (.dts, which #inc
Hi,
Le mardi 05 mai 2015 à 11:41 -0500, Rob Herring a écrit :
> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 5:05 AM, Yann Droneaud
> wrote:
> >
> > I believe Device Tree Blob (.dtb file) built from kernel's Device
> > Tree
> > Sources (.dts, which #include .dtsi, which #include .h) using
> > Device
> > Tree Compi
On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 5:05 AM, Yann Droneaud wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I believe Device Tree Blob (.dtb file) built from kernel's Device Tree
> Sources (.dts, which #include .dtsi, which #include .h) using Device
> Tree Compiler (dtc) are covered by GNU General Public Licence v2
> (GPLv2), but cannot find
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