[U-Boot-Users] non-GPL standalone apps

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Matthias,

in message <200709211412.41736.matthias.fuchs at esd-electronics.com> you wrote:
> 
> we are thinking of a standalone application instead of a full blown OS
> on a U-Boot enabled board. The most simple way to get some simple API
> (e.g. printf(), getc(), ...) would be to use U-Boot's jump table interface
> as it is used by the apps in the example subdirectory.
> 
> Our standalone application cannot use the GPL.

You think they cannot. If you look closer, they probably  could.  But
that's another story...

> Can we do this? Are non-GPL applications that use U-Boot's jumptable interface
> compatible with the U-Boot licence?

Yes, you can. Please see section "NOTE!" in file "COPYING".

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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