Hi Wolfgang and Mike,
missing comment block with license/copyright/etc... -mike
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Are you 100% sure this is a GPLv2+ compatible license??? I don't think so...
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For U-Boot, we need GPLv2+. Please see bullet # 3 at http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/U Boot/Patches#Attributing_Code_Copyrights_Sign and note # 1 at http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/U-Boot/Patches#Notes
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
I have encountered some requests of porting Google's Fastboot protocol to u-boot from customers. As your comment about supporting fastboot in uboot in http://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/linaro-dev/2011-April/004136.html I think the problem of supporting fastboot in uboot might not only be the license problem.
For clarifying the license issue, I think we may present some history as follows.
The original BSD license (4-clause license) was indeed incompatible with GPLv2. However, this conflict has finally be resolved in "The new BSD license" (2-clause license). After revising, the 2-clause BSD license is almost exactly the same as MIT X license, which is also compatible with GPLv2. In detail, please check about the the page about the 3rd advertisement clause. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html And the content of the 4th clause which has been removed was "Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission."
The license of Google's fastboot is exactly 2-clause BSD license. http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php
I think the well-known event of merging BSD/GPL code in QEMU could be a reference. The well-known Open Source Licensing and Patent consultant of Redhat -- Richard Fontana has also helped on this problem. In order to merge SLiRP into QEMU, Richard has written e-mail to the author of SLiRP, which is "Danny Gasparovski" and the maintainer "Kelly Price" to get the agreement of removing the incompatible clauses. And after the revising of license, they've successfully merged SLiRP. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-01/msg01765.html
Since the license of fastboot.c doesn't have the problem above, I think there is no compatible problem for merging "Google's fastboot".