[PATCH] bloblist: Drop BSD license

[Ilias Apalodimas]

Hi Simon,

On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 at 16:54, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
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> 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?

I am not sure I am following 'from scratch'. Firmware handoff is a doc
describing a list. Raymond implemented it in U-Boot and TF-A.
The right way to do this is to move the firmware handoff code to a
library that can be used across projects.

> 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?

"The non-GPL license was inadvertently added, remove it". Raymond
wrote that code so I don't think he minds removing the extra license.

/Ilias

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