Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH v6 1/2] package/versal-firmware: new package

[Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>]

Hello,

On Fri, 25 Nov 2022 09:29:05 +0000
"Frager, Neal" <neal.frager@amd.com> wrote:

> I copied the LICENSE file from the Xilinx/ubuntu-firmware repo below.
>  Looking more closely at it, I believe you are right that the license
> should just be Xilinx-Binary-Only.
> 
> I will update the LICENSE file to only include the binary portion as
> described in the below license:
> https://github.com/Xilinx/ubuntu-firmware/blob/main/LICENSE
> 
> The source code for the versal_plm and versal_psmfw applications
> comes from the same Xilinx/embeddedsw repository as the zynqmp_pmufw,
> so the source and binary licenses for all of these files should be
> the same. https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/tree/master/lib/sw_apps

Is this the full source code needed to build the versal-firmware? If
so, why do we use a precompiled binary? We should instead build it from
source from this repository.

> If I modify the LICENSE file and remove the commentary about GPL, do
> you think this could be acceptable for inclusion in buildroot?  If
> there is anything else I need to add, please let me know.

Yes, if the pre-compiled binaries are distributed under the
Xilinx-Binary-Only license, then that's OK.

Thomas
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