[U-Boot] [U-boot] fastboot command question

[Tom Rini]

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On 08/22/2013 10:30 AM, Eric Nelson wrote:
> Thanks Tom,
> 
> On 08/22/2013 06:59 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 05:30:52PM -0700, Eric Nelson wrote:
>>> On 08/21/2013 04:30 AM, TigerLiu at viatech.com.cn wrote:
>>>> Hi, experts:
>>>> 
>>>> Why not include cmd_fastboot.c in common directory in 2013.07
>>>> release package?
>>>> 
>>>> Because of code license?
>>>> 
>>>> Or other reason?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> <snip>
>>> 
>>> Do we need a clean-room implementation in order to comply
>>> with?
>>> 
>>> Is anybody working either the licensing or implementation of
>>> this?
>> 
>> So, putting my TI hat on, I've poked one of our legal teams about
>> one of the fastboot versions we've done (the shove everything
>> into cmd_fastboot.c one, which I don't like as much as the split
>> up ones, but, that's a technical thing not a license thing) to
>> see if there's any problems or not.
>> 
>> Historically, Wolfgang objected, roughly, on the grounds of
>> "great, Yet Another Standard by Bigcompany forcing things on us".
>> Which I can understand, but frankly, it's more of an ABI than
>> some of the "funny" things Android did within the kernel, so I'm
>> willing to live with it, so long as the implementation is done
>> well, and there's no legal hurdles.
> 
> Customers using Android ask for fastboot support, and this isn't a
> lot of code, so it seems worth pursuing IMHO.
> 
>> In fact, http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/126797/ was "looks 
>> legally fine, needs technical changes".
>> 
> 
> Hmmm. I missed this.
> 
> The only remaining objection seems to have been the commit message
> and attribution of the original source.
> 
> I'm CC'ing Aneesh to see if he can provide any guidance.

He was another one of the folks looking to get things merged back
then, and I don't think has time for it now.

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Tom
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