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

Steve Rae
2014-08-29T23:13:05Z

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