On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 10:02:58AM +0000, Pankaj Bansal wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tom Rini [mailto:tr...@konsulko.com]
> > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2018 10:33 PM
> > To: York Sun <york....@nxp.com>
> > Cc: Pankaj Bansal <pankaj.ban...@nxp.com>; u-boot@lists.denx.de;
> > albert.u.b...@aribaud.net; Varun Sethi <v.se...@nxp.com>; Leo Li
> > <leoyang...@nxp.com>; Priyanka Jain <priyanka.j...@nxp.com>; Mingkai Hu
> > <mingkai...@nxp.com>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: dts: Freescale: re-license device tree files 
> > under
> > GPLv2+/X11
> > 
> > On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 05:01:14PM +0000, York Sun wrote:
> > > On 01/18/2018 06:45 AM, Pankaj Bansal wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> OK, good.  But there's
> > > >> http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/U-
> > > >> Boot/Patches#Attributing_Code_Copyrights_Sign
> > > >> and you need to say what kernel you're syncing this file against
> > > >> (since there shouldn't be anything U-Boot specific in any of these
> > > >> files) so it's clear for the next person to come along and sync them.
> > Thanks!
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > I am not syncing the files from linux to u-boot. I am just changing the
> > license similar to commit 13b2ba1a11. There is no functional change in the
> > commit.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Tom,
> > >
> > > This is the case I explained in another email. These dts files are a
> > > subset of the those in Linux. This patch is not syncing with Linux to
> > > get the identical files, but to change the license to GPLv2 and X11.
> > >
> > > We have been maintaining these dts files in U-Boot and they have been
> > > different from Linux from the beginning. If you don't disagree, I tend
> > > to accept this patch for dual licensing.
> > 
> > OK.  While I would encourage use of the same dts in both cases, it's not my
> > maintenance burden here, so if that's how you want to go, that's OK with
> > me.  And so long as only NXP/Freescale/etc people have made changes to the
> > dts/dtsi files, it would be fine for NXP/Freescale/etc to update the license
> > terms.
> 
> Thanks Tom. I have checked in git logs that freescale/nxp employees
> are the only one who have made changes to these dts/dtsi files.
> Can you please merge these changes in mainline ?

I am fine with the change coming in via the regular tree, thanks!

-- 
Tom

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