Re: Unclear BSD licensing (headers, MODULE_LICENSE, versions)

2016-05-15 Thread Andrew Lunn
On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 12:44:35AM +0200, Rafa?? Mi??ecki wrote: > Hi, > > I recently received a hint that it would be nice/expected to have DTS > files licensed under BSD. I've not done a count, but i think you will find that most device tree files use X11 as the second license, not BSD.

Re: Unclear BSD licensing (headers, MODULE_LICENSE, versions)

2016-05-15 Thread Hauke Mehrtens
On 05/15/2016 12:44 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > Hi, .. > Another problem is text of BSD license > > 1) Some BSD 2-clause licensed sources don't link to its content. > > In case of GPLv2 some sources simply mention this license and refer to > COPYING. Few examples: > a) drivers/bcma/main.c

Re: Unclear BSD licensing (headers, MODULE_LICENSE, versions)

2016-05-15 Thread Rafał Miłecki
[Adding linux-doc@ which I probably should use from the beginning] On 15 May 2016 at 04:43, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 12:44:35AM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote: >> >> I recently received a hint that it would be nice/expected to have DTS >> files licensed under BSD. I had no exper

Re: Unclear BSD licensing (headers, MODULE_LICENSE, versions)

2016-05-14 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 12:44:35AM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > > I recently received a hint that it would be nice/expected to have DTS > files licensed under BSD. I had no experience with BSD, so I started > looking at this and the way kernel parts use it. There is a lot of sloppiness in some o

Unclear BSD licensing (headers, MODULE_LICENSE, versions)

2016-05-14 Thread Rafał Miłecki
Hi, I recently received a hint that it would be nice/expected to have DTS files licensed under BSD. I had no experience with BSD, so I started looking at this and the way kernel parts use it. Obviously Linux kernel is licensed under GPLv2, so all its code has to use GPLv2 compatible license. I fo