Re: [U-Boot] About GPL

2009-12-18 Thread Robin Getz
On Wed 16 Dec 2009 21:55, Rob Westfall pondered: > Where exactly is the line for what you have to provide vs what you > don't have to provide? > > We are building boards that are based on a standard board, but we have > obviously had to modify include/config/ to setup for our > hardware and create

Re: [U-Boot] About GPL

2009-12-17 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Rob Westfall, In message <63e059e40912161855q31eb64e4h84f8fbbdb088a...@mail.gmail.com> you wrote: > Where exactly is the line for what you have to provide vs what you > don't have to provide? If you want to know exactly, then please read the GPL itself (see file COPYING in the top level dir

Re: [U-Boot] About GPL

2009-12-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 21:55:01 Rob Westfall wrote: > Where exactly is the line for what you have to provide vs what you > don't have to provide? also, this is what you should be asking your lawyers. legal advice on random mailing lists is a waste of time. -mike signature.asc Descriptio

Re: [U-Boot] About GPL

2009-12-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 21:55:01 Rob Westfall wrote: > Where exactly is the line for what you have to provide vs what you > don't have to provide? > > We are building boards that are based on a standard board, but we have > obviously had to modify include/config/ to setup for our > hardware

Re: [U-Boot] About GPL

2009-12-16 Thread Rob Westfall
Where exactly is the line for what you have to provide vs what you don't have to provide? We are building boards that are based on a standard board, but we have obviously had to modify include/config/ to setup for our hardware and create customized files to support our board. We have NOT modified

Re: [U-Boot] About GPL

2009-12-16 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear "Hekko", In message <10217154154b296a67e0c072.86674490.active.m...@poczta.nazwa.pl> you wrote: > > Easy Albert, it was just a question about GPL ;-) also according to my local > law > I can ask any question. In that case, to make it official: I'm sorry anyone > who > felt offended and took

Re: [U-Boot] About GPL

2009-12-16 Thread Hekko
> > I would suggest to be very cautious with such statements. You had better > be in possession of valid, and legally obtained, proof of each and every > one of the statements you made, otherwise you might be put to trial for > libel. I don't know about your local law, but under French libel la

Re: [U-Boot] About GPL

2009-12-16 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear "Hekko", In message <21445806094b2958a71cfb50.07474534.active.m...@poczta.nazwa.pl> you wrote: > > Just a quick question: u-boot boot loader/linux kernel/bash is GPL > right ? ... Yes, but there are different versions of the GPL. U-Boot is currently "GPLv2+"; Linux is "GPLv2"; bash is curr

[U-Boot] About GPL

2009-12-16 Thread Hekko
Hello, Just a quick question: u-boot boot loader/linux kernel/bash is GPL right ? So whoever is using it he should public entire source code with an annotation that it's based on u-boot boot loader/linux kernel/bash ? Well, I'm a software programmer in the LG Electronics company, all these TVs