From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:29:32 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] uboot-tools: fix license issues In-Reply-To: <526913FC.7070905@zacarias.com.ar> References: <1382452676-2514-1-git-send-email-gustavo@zacarias.com.ar> <20131023113944.2e370a3b@skate> <2e6a07b0-2c59-47f7-a320-9f4ba3ddffe2@email.android.com> <52691180.9070908@mind.be> <526913FC.7070905@zacarias.com.ar> Message-ID: <5269751C.1000207@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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. > > -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F