[U-Boot-Users] Re: License issues with Xilinx provided files

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <4462411F.4080200 at xilinx.com> you wrote:
> 
> >It sounds like the user would be required to maintain a locally modified 
                                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >U-Boot source tree for each design.
> >
> IMHO, that's good design practice anyway. For every hardware project you 
> have a number of software projects that are aligned to the hardware 
> features. At any given time you want to be able to go back to that 
> source tree if an issue comes up.

But why in a *locally modified* tree?  IMO  the  public  source  tree
should be used.

> IMHO, having a driver library would make things much more complicated. 
> Generating the required drivers for a given hardware configuration is 
> straight forward.

Is the complexity of such a driver library (which seems to be a  good
thing  to have IMHO) an inherent issue that cannot be resolved, or is
it a result of the  current  design  that,  assuming  we  had  enough
resources, could be resolved in a technically clean way?

> That's correct. You can not change the license of drivers shipping in 
> EDK to GPL. However, if you let me know what drivers you need to have 
> licensed under GPL I can get this done.
> 
> >Are you planning to add a complete set of drivers to U-Boot?
> >
> No, drivers will be added on a "as needed" basis. But in the first place 
> stuff needs to make it into the source tree that we have submitted in 
> the past before we can add new things.

I'll be working on this ASAP.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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