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

[Tom Rini]

On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 07:51:13AM +0200, Dirk Behme wrote:

> 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?

Yes.  I've done the revert and posted the patch, and I shall push it
later today (barring an update from the authors) along with a few other
things in prepartion for release.

-- 
Tom
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