Re: [PATCH 1/3] riscv: dts: thead: add BeagleV Ahead board device tree

[Guo Ren]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 6:38 PM Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 08:23:22AM +0800, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 10:29:57AM -0700, Drew Fustini wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 11:32:17AM +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Jul 22, 2023 at 02:55:39PM -0700, Drew Fustini wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > +++ b/arch/riscv/boot/dts/thead/th1520-beaglev-ahead.dts
> > > > > @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
> > > > > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > > >
> > > > Hmm, should this not be dual licensed?
> > > > I notice the other th1520 stuff isn't either..
> > >
> > > Good point, I'll resubmit with a dual license.
> > >
> > > Jisheng: are you okay with the other arch/riscv/boot/dts/thead files
> > > changing to a dual license?
> >
> > When cooking the initial patch, I wrote the lpi4a dts files from
> > scratch based on sipeed opened sch file, and currently only I made
> > contributions to them, so it's easy to make the lpi4a dts files
> > dual license.
> >
> > However, when constructing the th1520.dtsi, I refered the T-HEAD's
> > opensourced yocto repo(in fact, that's the only sourcecode/doc I have
> > at that time), and the license there is GPL-2.0. That's
> > also the reason why copyright of Alibaba Group Holding Limited is
> > added to th1520.dtsi. I'm not sure how to make th1520.dtsi dual
> > license. At least, this needs help from Guo Ren. Any suggestion is
> > appreciated.
>
> I think Guo Ren Acking the change should be sufficient. It'd be good to
> have them dual licensed to make it easier for other projects to include
> the dts files from Linux. Almost all of what we have at the moment is
> dual licensed, other than the Canaan stuff & some board dts files I got
> from customers that were only GPLed.
Yes, dual license is okay for us.



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Best Regards
 Guo Ren