In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > reading here: > > http://osdir.com/ml/boot-loaders.u-boot/2003-11/msg00074.html
Please read the COPYING file! > I understand that is not required that standalone applications must be > under GPL, but what happens if such applications call some u-boot's > functions like printf(), for instance? If you do as the COPYING file states: "use U-Boot services by means of the jump table provided by U-Boot exactly for this purpose", then you're clean. If you link against U-Boot code, you're under GPL. > I suppose that a non-GPLed application cannot call any GPLed u-boot's > functions, is that right? No. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Death, when unnecessary, is a tragic thing. -- Flint, "Requiem for Methuselah", stardate 5843.7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ U-Boot-Users mailing list U-Boot-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/u-boot-users