[U-Boot-Users] What methods of software authentication does U-Boot support?

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <20080418163211.d5a1ee64.kim.phillips at freescale.com> you wrote:
>
> > U-Boot will run only software that has been
> > authenticated to be from the system's producer.  

Seems it's time to start a discussion to switch to GPL v3...


> > Any comments or suggestions?
> > 
> this patch taps into openssl:

Be careful. Linking against openssl is not possible because the
openssl licence is not compatible with GPL; see for example
http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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