Ben Warren wrote:

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 7:53 AM, Pieter Voorthuijsen pieter.voorthuijsen@prodrive.nl wrote:

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Hi,

I recently made a simple DNS implementation in U-Boot. The attached file is a patch to U-Boot 1.2.0.

DNS can be enabled by setting CFG_CMD_DNS. After performing a query, the serverip environment var is updated.

Probably there are some cosmetic issues with the patch. Unfortunatly I do not have the time to correct these. So if anybody else likes DNS support in U-Boot and has the time, feel free to patch it in the main tree.

Thanks Pieter - this looks useful.

Wolfgang, is the licensing of this code compatible with U-boot? If so, I'll clean it up and include.

regards, Ben

Disclaimer: IANAL

The "beer-ware license" looks to me like the MIT license after the author consumed a few beers. http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php On the FSF site http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses the MIT license is listed as the "expat" license and is approved as compatible with the GPL http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt

It actually looks quite similar to the "Fair" license[1]: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/fair.php

In my unprofessional opinion, I would say it is compatible.

Best regards, gvb

[1] The "Fair" license is listed as a "redundant" license in http://www.opensource.org/licenses/category It doesn't say what it is redundant with, I would assume the MIT license.

Quote from http://www.opensource.org/proliferation-report

Licenses that are redundant with more popular licenses

Several licenses in this group are excellent licenses and have their own followings. The committee struggled with this group, but ultimately decided that if we were to attack the license proliferation problem, we had to prune licenses. Thus, licenses that were perceived as completely or partially redundant with existing licenses were placed in this group.