Li Yang wrote at Tuesday, October 23, 2018 1:10 PM: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 5:35 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 09:18:02AM +0000, Pankaj Bansal wrote: > > > 2. Would it be possible for the copyright owners of these header files > > > to make these files dual licensed, so that we are able to use these > > > files in our dts/dtsi files? > > > > You are going to have to deal with the legal departments of the > > companies that own those copyrights. Again, talk to your legal > > department about how that would even work, or if they even wish for you > > to be asking people and companies to do that. > > Right, we should work with the author/contributor of these two files. > > Hi Stephen and Geert, > > Are you ok with relicensing these two files with (GPL-2.0 OR MIT)? > Given that many dts files in arm/arm64 are dual licensed with GPL and > MIT/X11/BSD, it makes more sense that these header files are dual > licensed with a permissive license too. FWIW, I have filed an internal bug to our IP audit team to see what they think. I cannot predict the answer or timeline for an answer. -- nvpublic
