On Thu, 2014-07-24 at 11:54 -0700, swami91 wrote:
> Thanks Wolfgang.
>
> Just curious.
>
> Why is that dynamically load proprietary library and call APIs in it from
> u-boot is violating GPL when Linux allows loadable modules that can be
> proprietary? Is'nt this same mechanism?
Several of the
Dear swami91,
In message <1406228088553-184878.p...@n7.nabble.com> you wrote:
>
> Why is that dynamically load proprietary library and call APIs in it from
> u-boot is violating GPL when Linux allows loadable modules that can be
> proprietary? Is'nt this same mechanism?
Who says that binary-only
Thanks Wolfgang.
Just curious.
Why is that dynamically load proprietary library and call APIs in it from
u-boot is violating GPL when Linux allows loadable modules that can be
proprietary? Is'nt this same mechanism?
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Dear swami91,
In message <1406208554349-184870.p...@n7.nabble.com> you wrote:
>
> Sorry the confusion. Actually my question is not standalone application
> accessing the u-boot services. Its other way around. Can the go command to
> execute the standalone application embedded into the u-boot? Can
Dear swami91,
In message <1406212756535-184872.p...@n7.nabble.com> you wrote:
>
> Is there any way of passing some data from outside of u-boot to u-boot
> without violating the GPL? Should the data be released as part of GPL? So if
> u-boot accesses some memory the content of that memory outside o
>Even if you hard-code addresses in the U-Boot image you would be
>violating the GPL. A non-GPL standalone application must be really
>what the name suggests: standalone. It gets only a very narrow,
>stricltly limited set of services - just enough to ger some early
>initialization and debugging do
Thanks Wolfgang.
>>
>> 1. Is it ok if we implement uboot commands that would call into the
>> standalone application API without violating GPL terms of u-boot? The
>> command returns to the command line after execution. The arguments are
>> passed from the uboot command line.
>No. A standalone
Dear swami91,
In message <1406164120148-184818.p...@n7.nabble.com> you wrote:
>
> 1. Is it ok if we implement uboot commands that would call into the
> standalone application API without violating GPL terms of u-boot? The
> command returns to the command line after execution. The arguments are
>
Hi,
We are planning to have a non-GPL standalone application which does some
basic board checks and also holds a authentication key (which we don't want
it to be published). The authentication code is in u-boot and will be
released under GPL.
1. Is it ok if we implement uboot commands that woul
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