[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/4] add code to handle Android sparse image format

[Marek Vasut]

On Friday, August 29, 2014 at 07:38:39 PM, Steve Rae wrote:
> On 14-08-29 08:11 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 02:52:40PM -0700, Steve Rae wrote:
> >> On 14-08-28 02:31 PM, Steve Rae wrote:
> >>> On 14-08-28 02:16 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> >>>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:53:51AM -0700, Steve Rae wrote:
> >>>>> Add original file (pristine) from :
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> https://www.codeaurora.org/cgit/quic/la/kernel/lk/plain/app/aboot/abo
> >>>>> ot.c?h=master
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> [3b5092d20bd15a7a2879c13e9f64acc48d04af2d]
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Steve Rae <srae at broadcom.com>
> >>>> 
> >>>> OK, let us back the truck up, so to speak.  This particular version of
> >>>> the file has an odd license.  Looking at
> >>>> https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/lk/+/master/app/aboot/aboot.c
> >>>> [54963a727d3e4ed1e945c7ec012b5cc5de168ac5] and it has the normal
> >>>> BSD-3-Clause text.  Lets grab and adapt that so we can drop the
> >>>> license issue.
> >>> 
> >>> OK -- "v3" coming soon!
> >> 
> >> OOPS! -- this "aboot.c" does not contain the support for the "sparse
> >> image format" -- I cannot use this file!
> > 
> > Can you poke around more for a version of aboot.c that has sparse image
> > support and comes more directly from google.com and thus hopefully
> > someone caught the rather strange license text changes?
> 
> I have previously spent hours looking for:
> (1) sparse_format.h -- which we now have (thanks to Colin Cross)
> (2) any implementation of the "while()" loop which parses this "sparse
> format"
> This implementation, in aboot.c (also recommended by Colin Cross), is
> also available from "Code Aurora" -- but it has the same wording as the
> "Linux Foundation" file; I have not found it anywhere else.
> I cannot spend any more time on this license issue....
> Please keep me informed of the outcome!

... and, this is how it ends. Again, legal crap proved to be a death sentence 
for a patch and carried with it an excessive amount of wasted effort.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut