[U-Boot] [ANN] U-Boot v2013.10 released

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Thu Oct 17 18:12:44 CEST 2013


On Thu, 2013-10-17 at 08:18 -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 05:34:20PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 15:50 -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
> > > The big, diffstat wise at least, change is that now instead of large
> > > boilerplate messages in every file about the license we use SPDX tags in
> > > all files to identify what license(s) apply here.  And the source code
> > > itself got trimmed down a good bit.  Thanks Wolfgang!
> > 
> > It looks like drivers/mtd/nand/nand_util.c was converted from "gpl v2
> > only, with Freescale preemptively granting permission for v2+" to just
> > "v2+".  Was permission obtained from the other copyright holders?
> 
> Welp, that's a mistake.  I suspect that the extra verbage from Freescale
> is what threw off script Wolfgang did, so are there any other files
> where Freescale granted similar rights?

The only other one I put text like that in is common/cmd_nand.c (in that
file, the existing copyrights had no license listed, and the code
predates the update to COPYING that specified v2-or-later), and that
text is still there.

-Scott





More information about the U-Boot mailing list