On 14-08-29 01:54 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
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


I certainly hope not 100% dead!!!!
If U-Boot would accept (the currently one-off) BSD-3L-Clause, then this could live!
Thanks, Steve
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