[U-Boot] Fastboot gadget, v2

[Marek Vasut]

> * Marek Vasut | 2012-02-27 00:09:16 [+0100]:
> >Hi,
> 
> Hi,
> 
> >what's the status of this patch/patchset?
> 
> the status is that Wolfgang wants me to change the license to GPLv2
> because he thinks that the BSD license is not compatible with GPLv2 or
> later and I can't.

It'd certainly be very preferable to make it GPLv2.

> I can't change the copyright because I don't hold
> copyright on those files like the header file. For instance I haven't
> found any documentation on the file format which is only described in
> the header file. The header file is only available under BSD license
> (not accepted by Wolfgang) and under Apache v2 (not compatible with
> GPLv2 but with GPLv3 according FSF).
> 

I see, this is troublesome.

> So unless
> - Wolfgang changes his opinion on GPLv2 vs BSD license or
> - we get the code relicensed by Google or

Maybe you can try contacting these people to add another license?

> - we get some documentation under a reasonable license and (can)
>   re-implement   it from scratch

That'd put unnecessary strain on everybode.

> 
> I don't see any movement here.

I see, let's try solving this as well as possible.

Thanks for your effort so far!

Cheers!

M