[U-Boot] Cellphones U-Boot and GPL

2010-10-07 Thread Simone Navari
I've recently bought an Acer cellphone powerd by Android. For fun I looked inside the update files and checking the bootloader binary I've discovered that it is based on U-Boot v2009.01 (the string is clearly visible using an Hex Editor), so I disassembled the first part of file, comparing it

Re: [U-Boot] Cellphones U-Boot and GPL

2010-10-07 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Simone Navari, In message 6b3ede875ca549879d5f776404c05...@snavari01 you wrote: I've recently bought an Acer cellphone powerd by Android. For fun I looked inside the update files and checking the bootloader binary I've discovered that it is based on U-Boot v2009.01 (the string is clearly

Re: [U-Boot] Cellphones U-Boot and GPL

2010-10-07 Thread Ken MacLeod
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Wolfgang Denk w...@denx.de wrote: In message 6b3ede875ca549879d5f776404c05...@snavari01 you wrote: I've recently bought an Acer cellphone powerd by Android. Now my question: U-Boot is released under GPLv2 license; is Acer obliged to give source code if