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authorRajithaY <rajithax.yerrumsetty@intel.com>2017-04-25 03:31:15 -0700
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-Licensing and contribution policy of dtc and libfdt
-===================================================
-
-This dtc package contains two pieces of software: dtc itself, and
-libfdt which comprises the files in the libfdt/ subdirectory. These
-two pieces of software, although closely related, are quite distinct.
-dtc does not incoporate or rely on libfdt for its operation, nor vice
-versa. It is important that these two pieces of software have
-different license conditions.
-
-As the copyright banners in each source file attest, dtc is licensed
-under the GNU GPL. The full text of the GPL can be found in the file
-entitled 'GPL' which should be included in this package. dtc code,
-therefore, may not be incorporated into works which do not have a GPL
-compatible license.
-
-libfdt, however, is GPL/BSD dual-licensed. That is, it may be used
-either under the terms of the GPL, or under the terms of the 2-clause
-BSD license (aka the ISC license). The full terms of that license are
-given in the copyright banners of each of the libfdt source files.
-This is, in practice, equivalent to being BSD licensed, since the
-terms of the BSD license are strictly more permissive than the GPL.
-
-I made the decision to license libfdt in this way because I want to
-encourage widespread and correct usage of flattened device trees,
-including by proprietary or otherwise GPL-incompatible firmware or
-tools. Allowing libfdt to be used under the terms of the BSD license
-makes that it easier for vendors or authors of such software to do so.
-
-This does mean that libfdt code could be "stolen" - say, included in a
-proprietary fimware and extended without contributing those extensions
-back to the libfdt mainline. While I hope that doesn't happen, I
-believe the goal of allowing libfdt to be widely used is more
-important than avoiding that. libfdt is quite small, and hardly
-rocket science; so the incentive for such impolite behaviour is small,
-and the inconvenience caused therby is not dire.
-
-Licenses such as the LGPL which would allow code to be used in non-GPL
-software, but also require contributions to be returned were
-considered. However, libfdt is designed to be used in firmwares and
-other environments with unusual technical constraints. It's difficult
-to anticipate all possible changes which might be needed to meld
-libfdt into such environments and so difficult to suitably word a
-license that puts the boundary between what is and isn't permitted in
-the intended place. Again, I judged encouraging widespread use of
-libfdt by keeping the license terms simple and familiar to be the more
-important goal.
-
-**IMPORTANT** It's intended that all of libfdt as released remain
-permissively licensed this way. Therefore only contributions which
-are released under these terms can be merged into the libfdt mainline.
-
-
-David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
-(principal original author of dtc and libfdt)
-2 November 2007