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

Steve Rae
2014-09-03T00:03:53Z

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!
or
(3) ???

Please let me know!
Thanks, Steve