[U-Boot] [swupdate] Re: SWUpdate - U-Boot environment library dependency

Otavio Salvador otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br
Wed Nov 21 16:23:30 UTC 2018


On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 7:10 AM Stefano Babic <sbabic at denx.de> wrote:
> On 21/11/18 00:10, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On 11/20/2018 10:11 PM, Simon Goldschmidt wrote:
> >> On 04.09.2018 12:30, Andreas Reichel wrote:
> The library is already built (tools/env/lib.a), but IMHO the best thing
> is to export it official and let that in OE we have a
> u-boot-fw-tools-dev with header and library.
>
> I would like to see the library under LGPL instead of GPL2, too, and I
> raised this issue when I started SWUpdate, but I was not very active to
> promote this. Tom, Wolfgang, is there chances to switch license ?

>From OE perspective, it ought to be a different recipe as
libu-boot-env or similar, so it does allow to be used without being
connected to the BSP in use. Especially if the option to load default
env from a file or similar is added.

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