On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 05:03:53PM -0700, Steve Rae wrote: > > > On 14-08-29 04:13 PM, Steve Rae wrote: > > > > > >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 <s...@broadcom.com> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>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 > > Any progress on the license wording? > > (1) create BSD-3L-Clause > or > (2) leave the original text in place, and add the following: > * NOTE: > * Although it is very similar, this license text is not identical > * to the "BSD-3-Clause", therefore, DO NOT MODIFY THIS LICENSE TEXT!
#2 please, thanks. -- Tom
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