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

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 24/10/13 14:35, Gustavo Zacarias wrote:
> 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.

  We don't? Then what does BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_CUSTOM_VERSION do?

> And there's custom tarball / git repo / etc too.

  Exactly, for these the other considerations still apply.

>
>>   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".

  I agree completely. But currently it just says GPLv2+, which is plain 
wrong.

  Regards,
  Arnout

> Regards.
>
>


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