In message 4630FC72.6050700@freescale.com you wrote:
No, in our case, the binary is provided to us as-is. We just need to put it on the flash image. Basically, Freescale has two development directions: the open source repositories, like the ones on denx.de and kernel.org, and the BSPs. One problem I'm trying to address
This sounds as if you were moving on pretty thin ice. I don't know what you are doing, but you cannot create a U-Boot or Linux based "BSP" which is not also open source, or, to use the correct term, FRee Software under GPL.
is that the BSPs typically have stuff that you won't find on the external repos, like this
If it's U-Boot or Linux based, then it's GPL anyway.
binary. There's no way I can provide the binary in the denx.de repo, so the next best thing is to make its inclusion automatic. If the binary exists, then the code from
I my be reading you wrong, but this smells to me like trying to work around the GPL.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk