[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/4 v2] DA8xx: Add MUSB host support

Paulraj, Sandeep s-paulraj at ti.com
Wed Nov 18 01:20:22 CET 2009


Dear Wolfgang,

> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/4 v2] DA8xx: Add MUSB host support
> 
> Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > Dear Sandeep,
> >
> > In message <0554BEF07D437848AF01B9C9B5F0BC5D93FA8B23 at dlee01.ent.ti.com>
> you wrote:
> >>> +/*
> >>> + * da8xx.c - TI's DA8xx platform specific usb wrapper functions.
> >>> + *
> >>> + * Author: Ajay Kumar Gupta <ajay.gupta at ti.com>
> >>> + *
> >>> + * Based on drivers/usb/musb/davinci.c
> >>> + *
> >>> + * Copyright (c) 2009 Texas Instruments Incorporated
> >>> + *
> >>> + * This package is free software;  you can redistribute it and/or
> >>> + * modify it under the terms of the license found in the file
> >>> + * named COPYING that should have accompanied this file.
> >>> + *
> >>> + * THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
> >>> + * IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
> >>> + * WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
> PURPOSE.
> >> This is not going to work. I have discussed offline with Wolfgang and
> Tom.
> >> This is going to probably get a NAK from both of them unless they have
> had a change of heart in the last month.
> >> I know what you have done is in response to a possible U-Boot moving to
> GPL v3.
> >
> > Sorry for asking stupid questions - but which sort of conflict do you
> > see in this text? The licensing seems to be OK with me (reference to
> > COPYING file in the top level directory), and the exclusion of
> > warranty is not a problem either.
> >
> > Am I missing something?
> 
> GPL 2 and at option later version
> is missing.
> Tom

 + * THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
 + * IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
 + * WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

I am referring to this "AS IS" part. I believe I discussed offline with you and Tom quite some time back and IIRC you had said that modifying this header to suit our needs was not allowed.

> 
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Wolfgang Denk
> >
> 

Thanks,
Sandeep


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