[U-Boot] uboot and ZFS

[Graeme Russ]

Hi Jorgen Lundman,

On 05/07/2012 11:03 PM, Jorgen Lundman wrote:
> 
>> Did you miss my message of Wed, 02 May?
>>
>> See
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/130638/focus=130671
>>
>> Unfortunately there is no legal (license-conforming) way to include
>> ZFS code into U-Boot and distribute it.
>>
>> That means, there is no chance to get this added to mainline.
>>
>>
> 
> My apologies, I did mean to reply to that.
> 
> The reason the GRUB boot loader can only handle single/mirror device root
> pool (ie, no raidz) is because Sun did not want to commit "any more than
> they had to" to GRUB, which would force the source to GPL.
> 
> The source that was written by Sun, for GRUB, is indeed GPL license
> (version 2).
> 
> I do not see this as a problem, unless suddenly you do not accept GPL
> licenses. (like 95% of your existing sources). (2000 .c files out of 2412).
> 
> Please advice if this is this not acceptable to u-boot. It does not change
> that I want it, so I will simply have to maintain a fork.

Technically, U-Boot is GPLv2+ so GPLv2 only code _may_ not be accepted That
is for Wolfgang to decide, but you have been warned :)

Regards,

Graeme