On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Graeme Russ <graeme.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Simon, > > On 24/09/11 03:38, Simon Glass wrote: >> From: Sonny Rao <sonny...@chromium.org> >> >> From: Sonny Rao <sonny...@chromium.org> >> >> These functions are useful in U-Boot because they allow a graceful failure >> rather than an unpredictable stack overflow when printf() buffers are >> exceeded. >> >> Mostly copied from the Linux kernel. I copied vscnprintf and >> scnprintf so we can change printf and vprintf to use the safe >> implementation but still return the correct values. > > Have you checked for license compatibility? U-Boot is GPLv2+ and (most) of > Linux is GPLv2 - You may not be legally permitted to do this
According to the FSF site, GPLv2 is compatible with GPLv3, see: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/quick-guide-gplv3.html So it's fine to distribute them together. In reality though, this code in U-boot was already copied from the same file in an older version of the kernel. The license (GPLv2 only) hasn't changed on that file, so U-boot is already distributing what is GPLv2 only code alongside GPLv2+ code -- which as I mentioned above is fine. The code here is derived from a later version of that same file, so I don't believe integrating this patch into U-boot actually changes anything with respect to licensing of this code. Sonny _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
