On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 02:49:08AM +0200, Daniel Mack wrote: > On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 02:15:16PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: > > Daniel Mack wrote: > > > I can't change the license as I'm not the author of the original > > > sources. > > > > You could try contacting the author, assuming you yourself would be > > comfortable using BSD for your work, if they are. > > There are some dozen authors as the stack was orginally written for > Linux 2.4 and then ported to U-Boot. Probably some bugfixes were also > backported. I don't know. So changing the license is not an option. > > > libpayload must stay BSD.. My guess is that your work will not be > > included in libpayload proper. > > Unless there is a separate module with complementary code which is then > released under the GPL. That way, it could also take some more code from > the Linux kernel without running into licensing issues again.
Btw - Patrick - IIRC - came up with that idea in #coreboot IRC channel. Has there been any movement in this direction? I just ask because I really want to avoid the code getting lost. Thanks, Daniel -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
