[U-Boot] [PATCH 25/25] x86: Add a README.x86 for U-Boot on x86 support

[Bruce_Leonard at selinc.com]

Hi Simon, Bin,

u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de wrote on 12/04/2014 04:03:54 PM:

> From: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> To: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
> Cc: U-Boot Mailing List <u-boot at lists.denx.de>
> Date: 12/04/2014 04:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH 25/25] x86: Add a README.x86 for U-Boot
> on x86 support
> Sent by: u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de
> 
> Hi Bin,
> 
> On 4 December 2014 at 08:04, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  doc/README.x86 | 123 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> +++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 123 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 doc/README.x86
> >
> > diff --git a/doc/README.x86 b/doc/README.x86
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..a79f510
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/doc/README.x86
> > @@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
> > +#
> > +# Copyright (C) 2014, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> > +# Copyright (C) 2014, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
> > +#
> > +# SPDX-License-Identifier:     GPL-2.0+
> > +#
> > +
> > +U-Boot on x86
> > +=============
> 
> Very nice!
> 

This is all really great work.

I do have a question though, and if it's already been asked/answered and I 
missed the thread I apologize for the noise.  Part of the reason we've 
held off on doing this project (other than resources of course :) ) was a 
concern about licensing.  U-boot is released under the GPL and we're 
worried that by linking in Intel's FSP we're creating a "derived work" 
that would then require Intel to release the source for the FSP, which 
they aren't going to do and would leave us open to law suits.  Doing it by 
calls into an opaque blob can loosely be defined as a dynamically linked 
library and therefore fall under the GPL exception clause, but our legal 
department considers that a dangerous assumption on our part.

Has anyone considered this issue?  I'm not a lawyer so I get lost in the 
legalize of licences pretty fast.

Thanks again for all the work.

V/r
Bruce


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