[U-Boot] [U-Boot, v2, 1/2] common: Add support for Android DT image

[Alex Deymo]

Hi,
I checked with our team and the include/dt_table.h import as BSD-3 here is
fine with us. Would you like me to send a patch with just this header file
or just Signed-off-by this whole patch?
Thanks,
deymo@

Le ven. 25 mai 2018 à 03:54, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> a écrit :

> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 09:47:55PM +0300, Sam Protsenko wrote:
> > On 16 May 2018 at 15:08, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 11:51:36PM +0300, Sam Protsenko wrote:
> > >
> > >> Android documentation recommends new image format for storing DTB/DTBO
> > >> files: [1]. To support that format, two things should be done:
> > >>
> > >> 1. Add dt_table.h file from Android (BSD-3 relicensed version): [2].
> > >>    This header defines structures and constants that we need to work
> > >>    with that DT image format.
> > >>
> > >>    Changes:
> > >>     - re-licensed from Apache to BSD-3
> > >>     - removed functions declarations
> > >>     - change the coding style to kernel (make checkpatch happy)
> > >>
> > >> 2. Add helper functions for Android DTB/DTBO format. In
> > >>    image-android-dt.* files you can find helper functions to work with
> > >>    Android DT image format, such us routines for:
> > >>     - printing the dump of image structure
> > >>     - getting the address and size of desired dtb/dtbo file
> > >>
> > >> [1] https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/dto/partitions
> > >> [2]
> https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/libufdt/+/58a7582180f477032cd6c74f8d9afad0038e74c3/utils/src/dt_table.h
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko at linaro.org>
> > >
> > > Why is it OK to change the license on the code?  AFAICT someone can't
> > > just relicense Apache to BSD-3.  What happened for
> > > include/android_image.h was that Google relicensed the Android code in
> > > question to BSD-2 (which in turn allows us in GPL projects).  Thanks!
> >
> > Ok, I will try to ask Google to do the same for the header I used. Do
> > you know what exactly should be done? Do they need to publish
> > relicensed file somewhere, or exactly in Android, or we just need a
> > confirmation from their side? Also, which license is preferable for
> > us?
>
> I believe Alex helped us last time, and it was done, iirc, by someone
> from Google submitting the file with the license we need and a
> Signed-off-by from their google.com address.
>
> --
> Tom
>