[U-Boot] [PATCH v8 3/3] MIPS: Jz4740: Add qi_lb60 board support

[Dirk Behme]

Dear Wolfgang and Tom,

Am 03.07.2013 11:54, schrieb Wolfgang Denk:
> Dear Xiangfu Liu,
>
> In message <4E95A3BA.8000905 at pobox.com> you wrote:
>>
>> Add support for the qi_lb60 (a.k.a QI Ben NanoNote) clamshell device
>> from Qi hardware:
>>
>> http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Ben_NanoNote
>> http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Main_Page
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi_hardware
>>
>> This Jz4740-based clamshell device does not use NOR flash to boot.
>> The initial bring-up assumes that U-Boot is directly loaded into SDRAM
>> using USB boot tool, and starts from 0x80100000.
> ...
>>   MAINTAINERS                 |    4 +
>>   MAKEALL                     |    4 +-
>>   board/qi/qi_lb60/Makefile   |   45 +++++++++
>>   board/qi/qi_lb60/config.mk  |   31 +++++++
>>   board/qi/qi_lb60/qi_lb60.c  |  104 +++++++++++++++++++++
>>   board/qi/qi_lb60/u-boot.lds |   61 +++++++++++++
>>   boards.cfg                  |    1 +
>>   include/configs/qi_lb60.h   |  211 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   8 files changed, 460 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>   create mode 100644 board/qi/qi_lb60/Makefile
>>   create mode 100644 board/qi/qi_lb60/config.mk
>>   create mode 100644 board/qi/qi_lb60/qi_lb60.c
>>   create mode 100644 board/qi/qi_lb60/u-boot.lds
>>   create mode 100644 include/configs/qi_lb60.h
>
> It has been pointed out (see [1]) that the files
>
> 	board/qi/qi_lb60/qi_lb60.c
> 	include/configs/qi_lb60.h
>
> added by this patch are licensed as GPL "version 3 of the License, or
> (at your option) any later version" - however, this is incompatible
> with the GPLv2 and GPLv2+ licenses that cover the rest of U-Boot.
>
> Would you be willing to re-license these files under GPLv2+ (and
> submit apatch to do that) ?  Otherwise we would probably be forced to
> remove the qi_lb60 board support to be legally clean.
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience, but obviously this issue slipped through
> at the initial review of the code...
>
> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/164965

No answer since > one week.

Should we revert this for v2013.07, then?

Best regards

Dirk

[1] 
http://git.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot.git;a=commit;h=3c945542dad99b1ec4a324ad6b69b8de8829827b