On Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 07:59:27PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Sunday 03 August 2014, Maxime Ripard wrote: > > Thanks for reporting this. > > > > From a quick grep, the issue is actually broader than just > > Allwinner. At least the following platforms seem to do the same: > > - mvebu > > - axm5516 > > - bcm > > - berlin > > - ea3250 > > - ecx-2000 > > - highbank > > - imx / mxs > > - lpc32xx > > - phy3250 > > - picoxcell > > - shmobile > > - rockchip > > - socfpga > > - spear > > - ste > > - zynq > > > > Would you mind sending a patch to fix all these? > > I would actually prefer if we could migrate a lot of these files to BSD license, > provided the original authors agree. We want the dtb blobs to be embeddable into > boot loaders of any license. Even though I'd be open to having my contributions to DTBs under the BSD, is this really a thing? I mean, for all I know, an OS/Bootloader would just parse a documented binary file, and I don't see any derivative work there. The same argument could be made for example for u-boot modifying a DTB I guess. Maxime -- Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com
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