From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timur Tabi Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:19:08 -0500 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Proposal for a make option to include an additional stand alone program directory In-Reply-To: <20070426201544.608A5353414@atlas.denx.de> References: <20070426201544.608A5353414@atlas.denx.de> Message-ID: <4631093C.7060002@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: > In message <463106E6.20203@freescale.com> you wrote: >>> You cannot link non-GPL code into U-Boot. >> What if I use mkimage to merge u-boot.bin with proprietaryfirmware.bin? > > Will U-Boot at any time call any functions or jump to any entry > points or otherwise execute any code in this firmare image? No. I'll have to check, but I believe the application that loads the firmware into the hardware is open source. But even if the application were non-GPL, how would running it be a GPL violation? If I load the application into memory, and just execute it, and the application runs without calling U-Boot code, and then the application exits, that's not a GPL violation. -- Timur Tabi Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale