[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4 v4] spi: Add Cadence QSPI DM driver used by SoCFPGA

Stefan Roese
2014-12-08T08:14:29Z

On 06.12.2014 13:56, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On Saturday, November 08, 2014 at 01:18:31 PM, Stefan Roese wrote:
>> On 07.11.2014 20:56, Dinh Nguyen wrote:
>>> +CC: Graham Moore
>>>
>>> On 11/07/2014 09:26 AM, Stefan Roese wrote:
>>>> Hi Dinh, Hi Vince!
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>>> Could we not just use a "plain" GPL (v2) license here as well.
>>>> Especially since the other files in this driver are just normal GPL
>>>> files.
>>>>
>>>> Comments welcome.
>>>
>>> Graham recent posted to lkml a patch series for QSPI that has a plain
>>> GPLv2.
>>>
>>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=141417788514196&w=2
>>
>> Interesting. Thanks for this info. But what is the implication of this
>> new plain GPLv2'ed driver code to the current code in this patch (based
>> on your Rocketboard.org version)?
>>
>> Frankly, I really don't have time and motivation to re-port this new
>> Linux version to U-Boot to get the GPLv2 version. How could we solve
>> this? Can you re-release this code under this new license (header)?
>
> Hi,
>
> I have this one still marked as "Open Issue", any news here ?

Not from my side I'm afraid. Perhaps somebody from Altera (Dinh,
Graham?) could chime in and let us know, if it would be possible to
license the current QSPI file under GPL?

Thanks,
Stefan