Re: [PATCH 2/5] arm64, thunder: Add initial dts for Cavium Thunder SoC

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Thu Jul 31 2014 - 06:27:06 EST


On Wednesday 30 July 2014, Robert Richter wrote:
> +/*
> + * Cavium Thunder DTS file
> + *
> + * Copyright (C) 2013, Cavium Inc.
> + *
> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> + * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
> + * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
> + * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
> + */

I think it makes sense to use a permissive license for these files here,
since board vendors may want to include a copy of the binary in their
firmware, which isn't necessarily GPL compatible.

What is Cavium's interest in making this GPL?

Arnd
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