[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/4] add code to handle Android sparse image format

[Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 05:03:53PM -0700, Steve Rae wrote:
> 
> 
> On 14-08-29 04:13 PM, Steve Rae wrote:
> >
> >
> >On 14-08-29 01:54 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >>On Friday, August 29, 2014 at 07:38:39 PM, Steve Rae wrote:
> >>>On 14-08-29 08:11 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> >>>>On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 02:52:40PM -0700, Steve Rae wrote:
> >>>>>On 14-08-28 02:31 PM, Steve Rae wrote:
> >>>>>>On 14-08-28 02:16 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> >>>>>>>On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:53:51AM -0700, Steve Rae wrote:
> >>>>>>>>Add original file (pristine) from :
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>https://www.codeaurora.org/cgit/quic/la/kernel/lk/plain/app/aboot/abo
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>ot.c?h=master
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>[3b5092d20bd15a7a2879c13e9f64acc48d04af2d]
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>Signed-off-by: Steve Rae <srae@broadcom.com>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>OK, let us back the truck up, so to speak.  This particular
> >>>>>>>version of
> >>>>>>>the file has an odd license.  Looking at
> >>>>>>>https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/lk/+/master/app/aboot/aboot.c
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>[54963a727d3e4ed1e945c7ec012b5cc5de168ac5] and it has the normal
> >>>>>>>BSD-3-Clause text.  Lets grab and adapt that so we can drop the
> >>>>>>>license issue.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>OK -- "v3" coming soon!
> >>>>>
> >>>>>OOPS! -- this "aboot.c" does not contain the support for the "sparse
> >>>>>image format" -- I cannot use this file!
> >>>>
> >>>>Can you poke around more for a version of aboot.c that has sparse image
> >>>>support and comes more directly from google.com and thus hopefully
> >>>>someone caught the rather strange license text changes?
> >>>
> >>>I have previously spent hours looking for:
> >>>(1) sparse_format.h -- which we now have (thanks to Colin Cross)
> >>>(2) any implementation of the "while()" loop which parses this "sparse
> >>>format"
> >>>This implementation, in aboot.c (also recommended by Colin Cross), is
> >>>also available from "Code Aurora" -- but it has the same wording as the
> >>>"Linux Foundation" file; I have not found it anywhere else.
> >>>I cannot spend any more time on this license issue....
> >>>Please keep me informed of the outcome!
> >>
> >>... and, this is how it ends. Again, legal crap proved to be a death
> >>sentence
> >>for a patch and carried with it an excessive amount of wasted effort.
> >>
> >>Best regards,
> >>Marek Vasut
> >>
> >
> >I certainly hope not 100% dead!!!!
> >If U-Boot would accept (the currently one-off) BSD-3L-Clause, then this
> >could live!
> >Thanks, Steve
> 
> Any progress on the license wording?
> 
> (1) create BSD-3L-Clause
> or
> (2) leave the original text in place, and add the following:
>  * NOTE:
>  *   Although it is very similar, this license text is not identical
>  *   to the "BSD-3-Clause", therefore, DO NOT MODIFY THIS LICENSE TEXT!

#2 please, thanks.

-- 
Tom
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