In message 200806011718.32290.vapier@gentoo.org you wrote:
What is the licensing of this file, and who is the Copyright holder?
it's all ADI written and owned. we dont particularly care about the license,
Ummm... Mike, you are a well-know contributor to Free Software. Such a statement from someone like you is kind of a shock to me.
We do care about licenses, really, really seriously.
but i guess i can tag it GPL-2.
Your guess is not good enough. We need to know for sure. And if it's owned by ADI *you* cannot do that.
I do not think that we should allow such code in U-Boot.
it is the designed programming style for all low level Blackfin systems. it is unified across Linux, U-Boot, bare metal code, and the official ADI propriety compiler. i thought your point was to keep U-Boot and Linux the same at the API level so code sharing is very easy between it ?
Yes, that's what we normally do.
However here I'm really uncertain. Actually I am deeply disappointed that such code made it into the Linux kernel. This should have never happened.
Anybody else cares to comment what we should do?
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk