[PATCH] bloblist: Drop BSD license

[Simon Glass]

Hi again Ilias,

On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 at 18:41, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Ilias,
>
> On Fri, 3 Jan 2025 at 08:15, Ilias Apalodimas
> <ilias.apalodimas at linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Apologies for the formatting, replying on mobile.
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 1, 2025, 21:58 Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.

Just following up on this as I'm not sure of the status of this patch.
Can you perhaps write your own commit message with your version of
what Linaro has done?


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