[PATCH] bloblist: Drop BSD license

[Simon Glass]

Hi Ilias,

On Fri, 3 Jan 2025 at 08:15, Ilias Apalodimas
<ilias.apalodimas at linaro.org> wrote:
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>
> Apologies for the formatting, replying on mobile.
>
> On Wed, Jan 1, 2025, 21:58 Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
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>> Linaro has decided to write their own version of bloblist from scratch,
>> so there is no point in having a non-GPL license on this file. Change
>> it, to better fit with the U-Boot project.
>
>
> Apart from the commit message being wrong, it's also intentionally provoking. There was no bloblist in TF-A.
>
> The TF-A code is implementing the firmware hand-off spec [0], which Linaro participated in the creation. The U-Boot implementation was adjusted to adhere to the same spec after the TF-A code was merged.

The U-Boot series was [1], for reference. This was mostly about using
different tags and shrinking the headers. My clear understanding was
that we were going to try to have a single codebase, which is why I
changed the license.

So, since you have a different view of events, why did Linaro write it
from scratch? Was it to avoid having U-Boot code in TF-A? Or was the
author just unaware of the original intention? It isn't relevant for
the commit message, but if you can find out I would be interested.

[..]

Regards,
Simon

> [0] https://github.com/FirmwareHandoff/firmware_handoff
[1] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/list/?series=387200&state=*