Re: [U-Boot-Users] Doubt on standalone applications license

In message 20080122164833.GA8123@enneenne.com you wrote:

reading here:

http://osdir.com/ml/boot-loaders.u-boot/2003-11/msg00074.html

Please read the COPYING file!

I understand that is not required that standalone applications must be under GPL, but what happens if such applications call some u-boot's functions like printf(), for instance?

If you do as the COPYING file states: "use U-Boot services by means of the jump table provided by U-Boot exactly for this purpose", then you're clean. If you link against U-Boot code, you're under GPL.

I suppose that a non-GPLed application cannot call any GPLed u-boot's functions, is that right?

No.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk