[U-Boot] Copyright/License text in cpu/ppc4xx/4xx_pci.c

[Matthias Fuchs]

Did you have a look into include ppc440.h?

It contains the "old" IBM copyright and (!!!) a GPL header with
copyrights from five IBM people.

Hmm, does this bring us any further?

Matthias

On Thursday 09 July 2009 11:51, Stefan Roese wrote:
> On Thursday 09 July 2009 11:24:39 Matthias Fuchs wrote:
> > > Yes, those files don't have much in common any more. Only some comments
> > > (which could be removed or rewritten) and and the sequence of some
> > > register initialisation. But again, IANAL and I don't really know if we
> > > can remove the IBM header with such a history.
> >
> > It seems nobody is a lawyer! So I think this issue cannot be solved by
> > the U-boot community and therefore the only way seems to be the removal
> > of this file in August as stated in the feature-removal plan.
> >
> > I will not start cleaning up this file as it seems to be a waste of
> > time when the file will be removed in August.
> >
> > Stefan, how do you plan to reach the August goal?
> 
> I just realised in this thread that this IBM license is incompatible with the 
> GPL. So it's new to me. And even worse, it doesn't only affect the PCI code 
> but also the 4xx EMAC code.
> 
> So if we have to really remove all the code with this IBM header, 4xx support 
> will be in really bad shape. :-(
> 
> So it's even more important to know, if such files as this 4xx PCI code, which 
> has nearly nothing in common with the original IBM code, can move to GPL. Not 
> sure how to solve this issue though. Perhaps we should ask somebody at IBM?
> 
> Best regards,
> Stefan
> 
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