[Buildroot] [PATCH] uboot-tools: fix license issues

[Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>]

On 10/24/2013 09:24 AM, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
>  Now, for the specific case of U-Boot, we can do better: if _VERSION is
> 2013.10 or larger, we can use the new license specification, else the
> old one (and due to U-Boot's versioning policy we can just use sort;
> custom has to be handled separately anyway).

We don't use version choices any more, just a recommended version
string, so matching might not be that easy.
And there's custom tarball / git repo / etc too.

>  But another issue is that the license that we specify is just plain
> wrong (as so often): all the U-Boot versions contain code that is GPLv2
> without + and that is BSD-3c, some also contain code that is eCos-2.0,
> IBM-pibs, LGPL. So we should probably fix the license spec for U-Boot
> regardless of where it comes from.

The U-Boot licenses that apply rely on the selected target too which
complicates things.
I don't think we want to become license police here other than "one or
more of X, Y, ..., please do your homework".
Regards.