[U-Boot] [EXT] Re: Cavium/Marvell Octeon Support

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Aaron,

In message <BYAPR18MB24402A81E226896D208669F5B17E0 at BYAPR18MB2440.namprd18.prod.outlook.com> you wrote:
>
> > Definitely not.  You could not implement any of this without heavily
> > relyin on and deriving from internal interfaces of U-Boot which are
> > not exported for non-GPL use.
>
> See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.en.html#GPLInProp=
> rietarySystem
>
> This behaves exactly in the manner that is permitted by the GPL.
> They are completely separate programs.

Are they?

You wrote:

"There is no linking. Only a call table descriptor is published in a
named block of memory."

I can only interpret from that that there is a call table, where your
applications call into interfaces that have not been exported for
non-GPL use.  This is not what I call "completely separate".


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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