On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 06:02:44PM +0000, York Sun wrote: > On 01/18/2018 09:59 AM, Tom Rini wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 05:25:01PM +0000, York Sun wrote: > > > >> Tom and Wolfgang, > >> > >> Do we have guideline on dual licensing the code in U-Boot? If I collect > >> consent from all contributors and copyright holders to a particular > >> file, am I able to re-license the file? If yes, how to determine the > >> list of contributors? > > > > In general, I think you would use 'git log' to see who contributed to a > > given file, and make sure that everyone who authored a change signed off > > on the license change. > > Thanks. > > > > > With regards to dts files, this is another reason I would like to see > > that done as a strict re-sync with Linux rather than a stand-alone > > change. Saying we're importing file X from the kernel at revision Y > > makes the license change pretty easy to spot and justify. > > > > For the dts files, they already exist in U-Boot. Can the team still say > "importing" from Linux? The files in U-Boot is only a small subset of > those in Linux.
Yes, if it's a strict replace file A with contents of the same file from Linux, it's re-importing. I thought these boards had already re-synced before but perhaps not? It's something we do from time to time on other platforms. -- Tom
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