On Thursday, August 07, 2014 at 03:29:17 PM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > On 08/07/2014 03:09 PM, Marek Vasut wrote: > >>> + * Copyright (C) 2010 The Android Open Source Project > >>> + * > >>> + * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); > >> > >> Please note that this license is not compatible with GPL version 2, > >> because it has some requirements that are not in that GPL version. An > >> U-Boot is covered by GPLv2 ... > > > > I think we should start considering getting some kind of a legal > > conseling here, or do we actually have one already ? > > I used the gnu page back then. Apache2 is compatible with GPLv3 but not > with GPLv2 [0]. Some parts of the code I played around (the android > image header file for instance) was under the Apache2 license and in > another git tree under the two-clause BSD license which was compatible > with GPLv2 [1]. > So the argument about incompatible licenses is valid here. Should > u-boot switch to GPLv3 you need to hunt down that file again and this > time with the apache2 license :)
I agree. Is there a version of this file with BSD license on it ? Then that'd be a problem solved, right ? The other option would be to ask Google to release it under BSD license, but I don't know how easy that would be. Best regards, Marek Vasut _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
