[U-Boot] [PATCH 6/7] fs: Add a Coreboot Filesystem (CBFS) driver and commands

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Tue Nov 6 23:35:14 CET 2012


Hi Wolfgang,

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> Dear Simon Glass,
>
> In message <CAPnjgZ1DbXwS=bgzLecoLM-V0785Zi6bytKTM=RP2EcnSkt4eA at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>>
>> >> Well I found a very short version:
>> >>
>> >>  * Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
>> >>  * found in the LICENSE file.
>> >>
>> >> but it is inaccurate. We could perhaps change it to:
>> >>
>> >>  * Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
>> >>  * found in the COPYING file.
>> >>
>> >> or something similar? But so much of U-Boot already has the full
>> >> version that I'm not sure this is a good idea. Here is the one I am
>> >> using>
>> >>
>> >> # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>> >> # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
>> >> # published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
>> >> # the License, or (at your option) any later version.
>> >
>> > Note that this is the GPL, and _not_ any BSD-style license !
>>
>> Yes. I've gone with the longer one, just removing the CREDITS. That
>> seems to be the most common message in U-Boot.
>
>
> You appear to miss the point.  You switched the licensing model from
> BSD to GPL - not that I would complain about such a move, on contrary,
> but I wonder if this is intentional and agreed by the authors of the
> code?

Yes I am now completely lost :-)

Where have I changed the licensing model?

Your original request was to remove the CREDITS line I think. I have
done that in this patch:

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/197314/

The above discussion about copyright message is separate to that. I
was looking around the code base for a possible replacement (shorter)
message because I thought that was what you were looking for. I found
the BSD one, but have not changed any code to use it.

So yes, please can you explain what I am missing here?

Regards,
Simon

>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
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