[U-Boot] Licensing Question on ARM Semihosting Code

Darwin Rambo drambo at broadcom.com
Fri Feb 28 19:18:18 CET 2014


Given the ARM header below, is this code possible to put into u-boot?

For reference, I see this discussion below.
http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2011-November/110884.html

If this is not acceptable, presumably due to the "All rights reserved"
and "Redistribution in binary form..." clauses below, we could try to
find an alternative implementation that is GPL2.0+ licensed or rewrite
the parts we need from scratch.

Any suggestions you have would be most welcome. Thanks.

Regards,
Darwin Rambo


> /*
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>  *
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