[PATCH] bloblist: Drop BSD license

[Simon Glass]

Hi Ilias,

On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 at 01:40, Ilias Apalodimas
<ilias.apalodimas at linaro.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Simon,
>
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 at 16:54, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > 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.

So in your mind, Raymond implemented it in U-Boot? Have you taken a
look at 'git log' or 'git blame'?

> The right way to do this is to move the firmware handoff code to a
> library that can be used across projects.

Not always. Probably not in this case. It has quite a bit of logic
which depends on its environment. So I think it is better to have
'similar' code in several projects. Certainly, writing it from scratch
(meaning not based on existing code) is not the best approach.

>
> > 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.

Again, please check your assertion here. I for one am very surprised
to hear that Raymond wrote the bloblist code :-)

But it does help to explain why you objected to my commit message.

Regards,
Simon