On Friday, August 29, 2014 at 07:38:39 PM, Steve Rae wrote: > On 14-08-29 08:11 AM, Tom Rini wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 02:52:40PM -0700, Steve Rae wrote: > >> On 14-08-28 02:31 PM, Steve Rae wrote: > >>> On 14-08-28 02:16 PM, Tom Rini wrote: > >>>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:53:51AM -0700, Steve Rae wrote: > >>>>> Add original file (pristine) from : > >>>>> > >>>>> https://www.codeaurora.org/cgit/quic/la/kernel/lk/plain/app/aboot/abo > >>>>> ot.c?h=master > >>>>> > >>>>> [3b5092d20bd15a7a2879c13e9f64acc48d04af2d] > >>>>> > >>>>> Signed-off-by: Steve Rae <[email protected]> > >>>> > >>>> OK, let us back the truck up, so to speak. This particular version of > >>>> the file has an odd license. Looking at > >>>> https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/lk/+/master/app/aboot/aboot.c > >>>> [54963a727d3e4ed1e945c7ec012b5cc5de168ac5] and it has the normal > >>>> BSD-3-Clause text. Lets grab and adapt that so we can drop the > >>>> license issue. > >>> > >>> OK -- "v3" coming soon! > >> > >> OOPS! -- this "aboot.c" does not contain the support for the "sparse > >> image format" -- I cannot use this file! > > > > Can you poke around more for a version of aboot.c that has sparse image > > support and comes more directly from google.com and thus hopefully > > someone caught the rather strange license text changes? > > I have previously spent hours looking for: > (1) sparse_format.h -- which we now have (thanks to Colin Cross) > (2) any implementation of the "while()" loop which parses this "sparse > format" > This implementation, in aboot.c (also recommended by Colin Cross), is > also available from "Code Aurora" -- but it has the same wording as the > "Linux Foundation" file; I have not found it anywhere else. > I cannot spend any more time on this license issue.... > Please keep me informed of the outcome!
... and, this is how it ends. Again, legal crap proved to be a death sentence for a patch and carried with it an excessive amount of wasted effort. Best regards, Marek Vasut _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
