[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 4/5] usb/gadget: fastboot: add sparse image definitions

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Thu Aug 7 23:49:47 CEST 2014


On Thursday, August 07, 2014 at 11:15:00 PM, Jeroen Hofstee wrote:
> On 07-08-14 23:10, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > Dear Jeroen,
> > 
> > In message <53E3E974.1020504 at myspectrum.nl> you wrote:
> >> On 07-08-14 22:59, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> >>> <snip>
> >>> 
> >>>> So the argument about incompatible licenses is valid here. Should
> >>>> u-boot switch to GPLv3 you need to hunt down that file again and this
> >>> 
> >>> You would have to rewrite the major part of U-Boot or to cripple it
> >> 
> >> noise ^ not
> >> 
> >>> to uselessness if you try to release it under GPLv3. I cannot see
> >>> anybody investing any efforts in that direction; all these threads
> >>> about a potential GPLv3 switch are just a hollow scarecrow.
> > 
> > sorry, can't parse that.
> 
> no, this was nicely formatted in my mail editor. Just wanted to point out
> you forgot a "not". You mentioned "to cripple it" you more then like ment
> "to _not_ cripple it". But the whitespace got lost along the way.

Please be more explicit next time, really. It can be difficult to find the 
balance between keeping the mail short and being explicit, but usually it's 
sufficient to read the mail after a few minutes and see if you'd understand
the message yourself if you got one as such.

Thanks!

Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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