Hi Bruce, On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 4:02 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Simon, > > [email protected] wrote on 12/05/2014 11:05:30 AM: > >> From: Simon Glass <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Cc: Bin Meng <[email protected]>, U-Boot Mailing List <u- >> [email protected]>, [email protected] >> Date: 12/05/2014 11:05 AM >> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH 25/25] x86: Add a README.x86 for U-Boot >> on x86 support >> Sent by: [email protected] >> >> Hi Bruce, >> >> On 5 December 2014 at 11:34, <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi Simon, Bin, >> > >> > [email protected] wrote on 12/04/2014 04:03:54 PM: >> > >> >> From: Simon Glass <[email protected]> >> >> To: Bin Meng <[email protected]> >> >> Cc: U-Boot Mailing List <[email protected]> >> >> Date: 12/04/2014 04:04 PM >> >> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH 25/25] x86: Add a README.x86 for U-Boot >> >> on x86 support >> >> Sent by: [email protected] >> >> >> >> Hi Bin, >> >> >> >> On 4 December 2014 at 08:04, Bin Meng <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <[email protected]> >> >> > --- >> >> > doc/README.x86 | 123 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> >> +++++++++++++ >> >> > 1 file changed, 123 insertions(+) >> >> > create mode 100644 doc/README.x86 >> >> > >> >> > diff --git a/doc/README.x86 b/doc/README.x86 >> >> > new file mode 100644 >> >> > index 0000000..a79f510 >> >> > --- /dev/null >> >> > +++ b/doc/README.x86 >> >> > @@ -0,0 +1,123 @@ >> >> > +# >> >> > +# Copyright (C) 2014, Simon Glass <[email protected]> >> >> > +# Copyright (C) 2014, Bin Meng <[email protected]> >> >> > +# >> >> > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ >> >> > +# >> >> > + >> >> > +U-Boot on x86 >> >> > +============= >> >> >> >> Very nice! >> >> >> > >> > This is all really great work. >> > >> > I do have a question though, and if it's already been asked/answered and >> > I >> > missed the thread I apologize for the noise. Part of the reason we've >> > held >> > off on doing this project (other than resources of course :) ) wasa >> > concern >> > about licensing. U-boot is released under the GPL and we're worried >> > that by >> > linking in Intel's FSP we're creating a "derived work" that would then >> > require Intel to release the source for the FSP, which they aren't going >> > to >> > do and would leave us open to law suits. Doing it by calls into an >> > opaque >> > blob can loosely be defined as a dynamically linked library and >> > therefore >> > fall under the GPL exception clause, but our legal department considers >> > that >> > a dangerous assumption on our part. >> > >> > Has anyone considered this issue? I'm not a lawyer so I get lost in the >> > legalize of licences pretty fast. >> > >> > Thanks again for all the work. >> >> Well if you a legal department, that's what you pay them for and they >> should be able to figure this out. Clearly if it were not permitted to >> use the binary blobs in open source software then the blobs wouldn't >> be very useful. But I'm not a lawyer either and am not qualified to >> provide legal advice! It would be useful if you could post what you >> find either way. And if for some reason there is a problem, we could >> take it up with Intel. >> >> > > Thanks for the info. We were sort of hoping that either the u-boot > community or Denx SE may have already addressed this. Probably what we'll > have to do is get an Intel lawyer on the phone with a copy of both the GPL > and the FSP licences and just go through them item by item. We'll feedback > to the list what we find out. > > Have a good weekend! > > V/r > Bruce
Actually coreboot supports Intel FSP as well on several other platforms already. There was once a thread talking about integrating FSP which might be helpful on your questions. Check it out @ http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2013-December/076801.html. Looks Intel is OK to have coreboot to integrate the FSP binary blobs in the coreboot source tree, but coreboot maintainers don't do that. Regards, Bin _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
