As announced a long time ago (and obviously mostly ignored by lots of
developers and maintainers) we now take the gloves off and actually
implement the license cleanup.
As U-Boot is released under GPL (some parts v2 only, other parts v2
or later) the task is to get rid of all parts of code that are
incompatible with the GPL. In this first step I'm focussing on files
that have a "All Rights Reserved" entry which is incompatible with
the GPL. This step consists of three patches; two of these are posted
now, the last one about one week later:
PATCH 1/2 License cleanup: remove unintended "All Rights Reserved" notices
This patch removes unintended "All Rights Reserved" notices
from some source files written by myself. That's the harmless
part.
[PATCH 2/2] License cleanup: remove all files with "All Rights Reserved"
notices.
This patch is strong meat. It removes some 250+ source files
with conflicting "All Rights Reserved" notices from the U-Boot
source tree.
I am well aware that in the result _many_ boards and features
will break.
This is why I will wait some time (about a week) before
submitting the last part of the patch. This time should be
used by developers and maintainers to fix the conflicts for
any files they consider important enough to care.
After that grace period, the remaining conflicting files will
be removed. This will probably still break a few things.
After about a week the third patch will be posted, which will remove
all boards and features from the U-Boot source tree that are broken
because of missing files.
NOTE: This is not a joke. I'm serious about it.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
-- Oscar Wilde
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