From: Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski@samsung.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [U-boot] DFU tools copyright
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 11:37:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130704113731.2afa9ca7@amdc308.digital.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FE7ADED5C2218B4786C09CD97DC4C49F940759@exchbj02.viatech.com.bj>
On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 17:20:34 +0800, TigerLiu at viatech.com.cn wrote:
> Hi, experts:
> I found DFU tool code had been put in drivers/dfu directory.
> Previously, it was owned by Samsung Electronics.
>
Could you be more specific here?
All DFU related files have following headers:
/*
* g_dnl.c -- USB Downloader Gadget
*
* Copyright (C) 2012 Samsung Electronics
* Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski@samsung.com>
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
02111-1307 USA */
Which clearly states that the code is GPL v2+. The code is "open", you
can modify it and use with your product if you provide your's product
source code when requested.
> Because it has been merged into uboot library.
> So, it could be used or released by every ARM SOC vendor?
Yes, it can as long as this vendor sticks to GPL v2 license.
This mean (with some simplification :-) ) that this vendor needs to
publish source code for his product.
>
> Best wishes,
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--
Best regards,
Lukasz Majewski
Samsung R&D Institute Poland (SRPOL) | Linux Platform Group
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-04 9:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-04 9:20 [U-Boot] [U-boot] DFU tools copyright TigerLiu at viatech.com.cn
2013-07-04 9:37 ` Lukasz Majewski [this message]
2013-07-04 21:08 ` Stefan Schmidt
2013-07-05 8:42 ` Lukasz Majewski
2013-07-05 9:07 ` Stefan Schmidt
2013-07-05 9:23 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] dfu: Update DFU's authorship history Lukasz Majewski
2013-07-05 9:28 ` Stefan Schmidt
2013-07-05 9:40 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] " Lukasz Majewski
2013-07-05 9:44 ` Stefan Schmidt
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