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

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