On 31.07.14 12:24:13, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

On Wednesday 30 July 2014, Robert Richter wrote:

quoted

+/*
+ * 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?

See my response to Rob's mail on this.

-Robert