[U-Boot] About GPL

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Rob Westfall,

In message <63e059e40912161855q31eb64e4h84f8fbbdb088ab44 at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> Where exactly is the line for what you have to provide vs what you
> don't have to provide?

If you want to know exactly, then please read the GPL itself (see file
COPYING in the top level directory) or
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

> We are building boards that are based on a standard board, but we have
> obviously had to modify include/config/<boardname> to setup for our
> hardware and create customized files to support our board.  We have
> NOT modified files outside of customizing a
> /include/config/<boardname> and creating a board/<boardname> directory
> based on a existing board that is already released from the cpu
> vendor.

For a quick summary, see "A Practical Guide to GPL Compliance" at 
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/compliance-guide.html

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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