From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>,
Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] u-boot: renamed dir from uboot to the more appropriate u-boot
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:30:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111209233058.E7DC41926E19@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111209080731.GB3848@jama.jama.net>
Dear Martin Jansa,
In message <20111209080731.GB3848@jama.jama.net> you wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 08:55:05AM +0100, Anders Darander wrote:
> > * Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com> [111209 08:25]:
> >
> > > recipe dirs normally have the name of the (main) package and the official name is u-boot
> >
> > From this I guess that there aren't any other changes in the patch,
> > apart from the renames?
> >
> > Next time, could you add '-M' to `git format-patch`, to make git detect
> > renames? That results in smaller and easier to review patches.
>
> Just because of "Coordinating inter-layer dependencies" thread I have to
> say, that this will break parsing for people using ie meta-openmoko and
> meta-nokia BSP layers:
>
> meta-nokia/recipes-bsp/uboot/u-boot_git.bb:require recipes-bsp/uboot/u-boot> .inc
> meta-openmoko/recipes-bsp/uboot/u-boot_git.bb:require recipes-bsp/uboot/u-b> oot.inc
>
> But I'll try to update meta-smartphone layers as soon as this change is
> applied in oe-core..
>
> meta-ti is already using recipes-bsp/u-boot so I guess it's worth
> renaming.
It's highly advisable to perform the rename ASAP. There is an
Austrian lawyer who claims to have IP rights on the name "uboot".
We had to sign a Cease and Desist Notice and update all web pages to
change all ocurrences of "uboot" into "u-boot" (which actually
required extensions to the wiki we used).
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-09 23:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-09 7:24 [PATCH] u-boot: renamed dir from uboot to the more appropriate u-boot Frans Meulenbroeks
2011-12-09 7:55 ` Anders Darander
2011-12-09 8:07 ` Martin Jansa
2011-12-09 23:30 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2011-12-10 10:51 ` Martin Jansa
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