Hi Jorgen Lundman, On 05/07/2012 11:03 PM, Jorgen Lundman wrote: > >> Did you miss my message of Wed, 02 May? >> >> See >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/130638/focus=130671 >> >> Unfortunately there is no legal (license-conforming) way to include >> ZFS code into U-Boot and distribute it. >> >> That means, there is no chance to get this added to mainline. >> >> > > My apologies, I did mean to reply to that. > > The reason the GRUB boot loader can only handle single/mirror device root > pool (ie, no raidz) is because Sun did not want to commit "any more than > they had to" to GRUB, which would force the source to GPL. > > The source that was written by Sun, for GRUB, is indeed GPL license > (version 2). > > I do not see this as a problem, unless suddenly you do not accept GPL > licenses. (like 95% of your existing sources). (2000 .c files out of 2412). > > Please advice if this is this not acceptable to u-boot. It does not change > that I want it, so I will simply have to maintain a fork.
Technically, U-Boot is GPLv2+ so GPLv2 only code _may_ not be accepted That is for Wolfgang to decide, but you have been warned :) Regards, Graeme _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
