Subject: [PATCH 1/7] arm64: dts: marvell: use SPDX-License-Identifier for Armada SoCs

From: [email-masked] (Gregory CLEMENT)
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 13:52:38 +0100

Hi Thomas,
 
 On ven., janv. 05 2018, Thomas Petazzoni <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Fri,  5 Jan 2018 12:53:23 +0100, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
>> Follow the recent trend for the license description, and also fix the
>> wrongly stated X11 to MIT.
>> 
>> As already pointed on the DT ML, the X11 license text [1] is explicitly
>> for the X Consortium and has a couple of extra clauses. The MIT
>> license text [2] is actually what the current DT files claim.
>> 
>> [1] https://spdx.org/licenses/X11.html
>> [2] https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <[email-masked]>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-371x.dtsi       | 38 +-------------------
>>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-372x.dtsi       | 38 +-------------------
>>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-37xx.dtsi       | 38 +-------------------
>>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-7020.dtsi       | 41 +---------------------
>>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-7040.dtsi       | 41 +---------------------
>>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-70x0.dtsi       | 41 +---------------------
>>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-8020.dtsi       | 41 +---------------------
>>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-8040.dtsi       | 41 +---------------------
>>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-8080.dtsi       | 41 +---------------------
>>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-80x0.dtsi       | 41 +---------------------
>>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-ap806-dual.dtsi | 41 +---------------------
>>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-ap806-quad.dtsi | 41 +---------------------
>>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-ap806.dtsi      | 41 +---------------------
>>  .../dts/marvell/armada-ap810-ap0-octa-core.dtsi    | 41 +---------------------
>>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-ap810-ap0.dtsi  | 41 +---------------------
>>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-common.dtsi     |  2 +-
>>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-cp110.dtsi      |  6 ++--
>>  17 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 596 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-371x.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-371x.dtsi
>> index 11226f7b9ed9..dc1182ec9fa1 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-371x.dtsi
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-371x.dtsi
>> @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
>> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0+ OR MIT)
>
> The previous license was GPL-2.0+ or X11, not GPL-2.0+ or MIT. Any
> reason to change from X11 to MIT ?

As explained in the commit log:
" the X11 license text [1] is explicitly for the X Consortium and has a
couple of extra clauses. The MIT license text [2] is actually what the
current DT files claim."

Also as I wrote it was already discussed on the mainling lists (device
tree one and LAKML) see:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2017-February/489922.html

Gregory

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