On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Rob Herring <robherring2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ben, > > On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Scott Wood <scottwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, 2014-04-01 at 11:57 -0500, Rob Herring wrote: >>> From: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> >>> >>> Add FDT based address translation. Currently, only simple bus >>> translations are supported, but the framework allows adding other >>> buses like PCI. Adding this to libfdt allows the address >>> translation code to be shared amongst u-boot, Linux kernel and other >>> projects. >>> >>> This code is based on GPL only licensed code. It must first be >>> re-licensed for dual GPL/BSD to add to libfdt which requires approval >>> from the copyright holders. >>> >>> This code is copied from u-boot common/fdt_support.c. The portion used >>> here was originally added to u-boot by Kumar Gala in 2010 and Freescale >>> is the copyright holder. Later changes have also only been done by >>> Freescale authors. The u-boot code appears to have been copied from the >>> Linux kernel's address translation code in drivers/of/address.c which >>> has no copyright. This code was moved by Grant Likely in 2010 and >>> originated from arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_parse.c which was written by >>> Ben Herrenschmidt. Who is the copyright holder on a file in the kernel >>> with no copyright? Does this default to the author or Linus or nobody? >> >> ACK for the Freescale contribution (on copyright issues, not technical -- see below). > > Can you please comment on the re-licensing of this code. > Ping. Rob -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree-compiler" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
