[U-Boot] U-book and GPLv3?

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Remy,

In message <3efb10970907071216h57288a2an91701c1c851dea9e at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for mentioning this. But  this  is  explicitly  restricted  to
> > "stand  alone  applications",  with  a  pretty tightly limited set of
> > functions exported to such code. It is not intended  to  be  extended
> > into  something  like  loadable  modules that can access much more of
> > U-Boot's internal code.
>
> AFAIK this limitation of extension is not stated anywhere in the
> documentation that is delivered with U-boot. (If I am wrong, please
> point me to the location where this is stated)

True.

> So, I guess every user of U-boot is allowed to extend that interface
> to even the complete symbol map of U-boot, without doing anything in
> conflict with the license. You can now say it is not intended, but it
> is not restricted.

Right. But try it - banging your head against the nearest wall  might
be a pastime with more opportunities for reward.

And don't expect that such an "extension" had any  chance  for  going
into the mainline code.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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