[U-Boot] Licensing Question on ARM Semihosting Code

[Tom Rini]

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On 02/28/2014 01:18 PM, Darwin Rambo wrote:
> 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.

So, that particular discussion was about fastboot, and in that
particular case everything is OK, in the long run (I poked TI's
lawyers about that).  We're just missing a clean design version being
ported and I know of a few groups / companies leaning on another
entity to do so.

But with your particular quoted header, I think we cannot use it as it
puts restrictions on the binary redistribution as well.

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Tom
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