[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH/review] Blackfin: add support for BF538/BF539

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

In message <200806011718.32290.vapier@gentoo.org> you wrote:
>
> > What is the licensing of this file, and who is the Copyright holder?
> 
> it's all ADI written and owned.  we dont particularly care about the license, 

Ummm... Mike, you are a well-know contributor to Free Software. Such a
statement from someone like you is kind of a shock to me.

We do care about licenses, really, really seriously.

> but i guess i can tag it GPL-2.

Your guess is not good enough. We need to know for sure. And if it's
owned by ADI *you* cannot do that.

> > I do not think that we should allow such code in U-Boot.
> 
> it is the designed programming style for all low level Blackfin systems.  it 
> is unified across Linux, U-Boot, bare metal code, and the official ADI 
> propriety compiler.  i thought your point was to keep U-Boot and Linux the
> same at the API level so code sharing is very easy between it ?

Yes, that's what we normally do.

However here I'm really uncertain. Actually I am deeply disappointed
that such code made it into the Linux kernel. This should have never
happened.


Anybody else cares to comment what we should do?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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