[U-Boot-Users] Proposal for a make option to include an additional stand alone program directory

[Timur Tabi]

Wolfgang Denk wrote:

> You cannot link non-GPL code into U-Boot.

What if I use mkimage to merge u-boot.bin with proprietaryfirmware.bin?

If that doesn't work, what if I burn u-boot.bin into flash at some location, and then burn 
proprietaryfirmware.bin into flash at another location, and then I create an an image file 
by copying all of flash?

It depends on how you define linking.  I would say that taking two binaries, one from GPL 
code and one from non-GPL code, and just merging them into another binary, that cannot be 
a GPL violation.

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Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale