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From: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@gmail.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v8 3/3] MIPS: Jz4740: Add qi_lb60 board support
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 07:51:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51E0EAD1.6070100@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130703095414.471D2380E12@gemini.denx.de>

Dear Wolfgang and Tom,

Am 03.07.2013 11:54, schrieb Wolfgang Denk:
> Dear Xiangfu Liu,
>
> In message <4E95A3BA.8000905@pobox.com> you wrote:
>>
>> Add support for the qi_lb60 (a.k.a QI Ben NanoNote) clamshell device
>> from Qi hardware:
>>
>> http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Ben_NanoNote
>> http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Main_Page
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi_hardware
>>
>> This Jz4740-based clamshell device does not use NOR flash to boot.
>> The initial bring-up assumes that U-Boot is directly loaded into SDRAM
>> using USB boot tool, and starts from 0x80100000.
> ...
>>   MAINTAINERS                 |    4 +
>>   MAKEALL                     |    4 +-
>>   board/qi/qi_lb60/Makefile   |   45 +++++++++
>>   board/qi/qi_lb60/config.mk  |   31 +++++++
>>   board/qi/qi_lb60/qi_lb60.c  |  104 +++++++++++++++++++++
>>   board/qi/qi_lb60/u-boot.lds |   61 +++++++++++++
>>   boards.cfg                  |    1 +
>>   include/configs/qi_lb60.h   |  211 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   8 files changed, 460 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>   create mode 100644 board/qi/qi_lb60/Makefile
>>   create mode 100644 board/qi/qi_lb60/config.mk
>>   create mode 100644 board/qi/qi_lb60/qi_lb60.c
>>   create mode 100644 board/qi/qi_lb60/u-boot.lds
>>   create mode 100644 include/configs/qi_lb60.h
>
> It has been pointed out (see [1]) that the files
>
> 	board/qi/qi_lb60/qi_lb60.c
> 	include/configs/qi_lb60.h
>
> added by this patch are licensed as GPL "version 3 of the License, or
> (at your option) any later version" - however, this is incompatible
> with the GPLv2 and GPLv2+ licenses that cover the rest of U-Boot.
>
> Would you be willing to re-license these files under GPLv2+ (and
> submit apatch to do that) ?  Otherwise we would probably be forced to
> remove the qi_lb60 board support to be legally clean.
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience, but obviously this issue slipped through
> at the initial review of the code...
>
> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/164965

No answer since > one week.

Should we revert this for v2013.07, then?

Best regards

Dirk

[1] 
http://git.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot.git;a=commit;h=3c945542dad99b1ec4a324ad6b69b8de8829827b

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-13  5:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-12 14:22 [U-Boot] [PATCH v8 0/3] those series patches for add ben nanonote board Shinya Kuribayashi
2011-10-12 14:25 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v8 1/3] MIPS: Ingenic XBurst Jz4740 processor support Shinya Kuribayashi
2011-10-12 14:26 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v8 2/3] MIPS: Jz4740: Add NAND driver Shinya Kuribayashi
2011-10-28 20:38   ` Scott Wood
2011-10-12 14:27 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v8 3/3] MIPS: Jz4740: Add qi_lb60 board support Shinya Kuribayashi
2013-07-03  9:22   ` [U-Boot] GPL v3 only code in U-Boot Dirk Behme
2013-07-03  9:25     ` Graeme Russ
2013-07-03  9:46     ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-07-03  9:54     ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v8 3/3] MIPS: Jz4740: Add qi_lb60 board support Wolfgang Denk
2013-07-13  5:51       ` Dirk Behme [this message]
2013-07-15 13:59         ` Tom Rini

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