From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timur Tabi Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:09:10 -0500 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Proposal for a make option to include an additional stand alone program directory In-Reply-To: <20070426200559.1E528353414@atlas.denx.de> References: <20070426200559.1E528353414@atlas.denx.de> Message-ID: <463106E6.20203@freescale.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Wolfgang Denk wrote: > You cannot link non-GPL code into U-Boot. What if I use mkimage to merge u-boot.bin with proprietaryfirmware.bin? If that doesn't work, what if I burn u-boot.bin into flash at some location, and then burn proprietaryfirmware.bin into flash at another location, and then I create an an image file by copying all of flash? It depends on how you define linking. I would say that taking two binaries, one from GPL code and one from non-GPL code, and just merging them into another binary, that cannot be a GPL violation. -- Timur Tabi Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale