[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] image: add support for Android's boot image format

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Sat Sep 17 22:20:26 CEST 2011


On Saturday, September 17, 2011 15:33:40 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 09/17/2011 03:10 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> >>> Are you 100% sure this is a GPLv2+ compatible license??? I don't think
> >>> so...
> >> 
> >> How so? This is a 3-clause BSD license. According to [0] it is
> >> compatible. Is there anything I missed here?
> > 
> > The "All rights reserved." clause doesn't fit.
> 
> Are you sure? This type of license matches the FreeBSD license [0]
> (including the "All rights reserved" statement) and the FSF says that
> it is compatible with the GPL license [1].
> I also see this in tools/fit_image.c which is GPLv2 or later and in
> include/elf.h which is a 3-clause BSD license.
> So why does it not fit in here?

the phrase is meaningless cruft nowadays:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Rights_Reserved
-mike
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