[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 4/5] usb/gadget: fastboot: add sparse image definitions

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2014-08-07T13:29:17Z

On 08/07/2014 03:09 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>> + * Copyright (C) 2010 The Android Open Source Project
>>> + *
>>> + * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
>> Please note that this license is not compatible with GPL version 2,
>> because it has some requirements that are not in that GPL version. An
>> U-Boot is covered by GPLv2 ...
>
> I think we should start considering getting some kind of a legal conseling here,
> or do we actually have one already ?

I used the gnu page back then. Apache2 is compatible with GPLv3 but not
with GPLv2 [0]. Some parts of the code I played around (the android
image header file for instance) was under the Apache2 license and in
another git tree under the two-clause BSD license which was compatible
with GPLv2 [1].
So the argument about incompatible licenses is valid here. Should
u-boot switch to GPLv3 you need to hunt down that file again and this
time with the apache2 license :)

[0] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#apache2
[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#FreeBSD

>
> Best regards,
> Marek Vasut
>

Sebastian