On Thursday, August 07, 2014 at 03:29:17 PM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
On 08/07/2014 03:09 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
- Copyright (C) 2010 The Android Open Source Project
- Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
Please note that this license is not compatible with GPL version 2, because it has some requirements that are not in that GPL version. An U-Boot is covered by GPLv2 ...
I think we should start considering getting some kind of a legal conseling here, or do we actually have one already ?
I used the gnu page back then. Apache2 is compatible with GPLv3 but not with GPLv2 [0]. Some parts of the code I played around (the android image header file for instance) was under the Apache2 license and in another git tree under the two-clause BSD license which was compatible with GPLv2 [1]. So the argument about incompatible licenses is valid here. Should u-boot switch to GPLv3 you need to hunt down that file again and this time with the apache2 license :)
I agree. Is there a version of this file with BSD license on it ? Then that'd be a problem solved, right ? The other option would be to ask Google to release it under BSD license, but I don't know how easy that would be.
Best regards, Marek Vasut