Dear Wolfgang and Tom,

Am 03.07.2013 11:54, schrieb Wolfgang Denk:
Dear Xiangfu Liu,

In message <4e95a3ba.8000...@pobox.com> you wrote:

Add support for the qi_lb60 (a.k.a QI Ben NanoNote) clamshell device
from Qi hardware:

http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Ben_NanoNote
http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Main_Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi_hardware

This Jz4740-based clamshell device does not use NOR flash to boot.
The initial bring-up assumes that U-Boot is directly loaded into SDRAM
using USB boot tool, and starts from 0x80100000.
...
  MAINTAINERS                 |    4 +
  MAKEALL                     |    4 +-
  board/qi/qi_lb60/Makefile   |   45 +++++++++
  board/qi/qi_lb60/config.mk  |   31 +++++++
  board/qi/qi_lb60/qi_lb60.c  |  104 +++++++++++++++++++++
  board/qi/qi_lb60/u-boot.lds |   61 +++++++++++++
  boards.cfg                  |    1 +
  include/configs/qi_lb60.h   |  211 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
  8 files changed, 460 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
  create mode 100644 board/qi/qi_lb60/Makefile
  create mode 100644 board/qi/qi_lb60/config.mk
  create mode 100644 board/qi/qi_lb60/qi_lb60.c
  create mode 100644 board/qi/qi_lb60/u-boot.lds
  create mode 100644 include/configs/qi_lb60.h

It has been pointed out (see [1]) that the files

        board/qi/qi_lb60/qi_lb60.c
        include/configs/qi_lb60.h

added by this patch are licensed as GPL "version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version" - however, this is incompatible
with the GPLv2 and GPLv2+ licenses that cover the rest of U-Boot.

Would you be willing to re-license these files under GPLv2+ (and
submit apatch to do that) ?  Otherwise we would probably be forced to
remove the qi_lb60 board support to be legally clean.

Sorry for the inconvenience, but obviously this issue slipped through
at the initial review of the code...

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/164965

No answer since > one week.

Should we revert this for v2013.07, then?

Best regards

Dirk

[1] http://git.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot.git;a=commit;h=3c945542dad99b1ec4a324ad6b69b8de8829827b
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