Did you have a look into include ppc440.h? It contains the "old" IBM copyright and (!!!) a GPL header with copyrights from five IBM people.
Hmm, does this bring us any further? Matthias On Thursday 09 July 2009 11:51, Stefan Roese wrote: > On Thursday 09 July 2009 11:24:39 Matthias Fuchs wrote: > > > Yes, those files don't have much in common any more. Only some comments > > > (which could be removed or rewritten) and and the sequence of some > > > register initialisation. But again, IANAL and I don't really know if we > > > can remove the IBM header with such a history. > > > > It seems nobody is a lawyer! So I think this issue cannot be solved by > > the U-boot community and therefore the only way seems to be the removal > > of this file in August as stated in the feature-removal plan. > > > > I will not start cleaning up this file as it seems to be a waste of > > time when the file will be removed in August. > > > > Stefan, how do you plan to reach the August goal? > > I just realised in this thread that this IBM license is incompatible with the > GPL. So it's new to me. And even worse, it doesn't only affect the PCI code > but also the 4xx EMAC code. > > So if we have to really remove all the code with this IBM header, 4xx support > will be in really bad shape. :-( > > So it's even more important to know, if such files as this 4xx PCI code, > which > has nearly nothing in common with the original IBM code, can move to GPL. Not > sure how to solve this issue though. Perhaps we should ask somebody at IBM? > > Best regards, > Stefan > > ===================================================================== > DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel > HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany > Phone: +49-8142-66989-0 Fax: +49-8142-66989-80 Email: off...@denx.de > ===================================================================== > _______________________________________________ > U-Boot mailing list > U-Boot@lists.denx.de > http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Matthias Fuchs Head of System Design esd electronic system design gmbh Vahrenwalder Str. 207 - 30165 Hannover - GERMANY Phone: +49-511-37298-0 - Fax: +49-511-37298-68 Please visit our homepage http://www.esd.eu Quality Products - Made in Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Geschäftsführer: Klaus Detering, Dr. Werner Schulze Amtsgericht Hannover HRB 51373 - VAT-ID DE 115672832 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
