Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > I wanted to add support for the TotalPhase Cheetah to flashrom, but > I have to use the proprietary driver library for that. I'm not > aware of any free alternative to that driver, so there may be a > conflict with the GPL.
There would be no issue, if flasher drivers were not linked with flashrom, but rather separate processes implementing a well-defined interface. Maybe you remember the discussion about flashrom plugins. > If the Cheetah driver library is considered to be a system library, > the GPL allows linking against that library. Cheetah is not essential for the system where flashrom is running so I do not think that can be argumented successfully. //Peter -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
