Re: [U-Boot] About GPL
I would suggest to be very cautious with such statements. You had better be in possession of valid, and legally obtained, proof of each and every one of the statements you made, otherwise you might be put to trial for libel. I don't know about your local law, but under French libel law, you've said enough to get yourself in trouble.
In any case, you should discuss with a lawyer before publishing such statements as you just made.
Amicalement,
Easy Albert, it was just a question about GPL ;-) also according to my local law I can ask any question. In that case, to make it official: I'm sorry anyone who felt offended and took it as an accusation, also LG. I just wanted to ask simple about GPL, maybe I took words wrong / poor english.
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Dear "Hekko",
In message 10217154154b296a67e0c072.86674490.Active.mail@poczta.nazwa.pl you wrote:
Easy Albert, it was just a question about GPL ;-) also according to my local law I can ask any question. In that case, to make it official: I'm sorry anyone who felt offended and took it as an accusation, also LG. I just wanted to ask simple about GPL, maybe I took words wrong / poor english.
Just one more word: I can speak only ofr U-Boot - but if you really have proof that anybody uses U-Boot in a product, and they do not provide the source code when you ask for it, then please feel free to contact me and be assured that we will try to resolve this issue - one way or another.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
Where exactly is the line for what you have to provide vs what you don't have to provide?
We are building boards that are based on a standard board, but we have obviously had to modify include/config/<boardname> to setup for our hardware and create customized files to support our board. We have NOT modified files outside of customizing a /include/config/<boardname> and creating a board/<boardname> directory based on a existing board that is already released from the cpu vendor.
Thanks, Rob Westfall
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Wolfgang Denk wd@denx.de wrote:
Dear "Hekko",
In message 10217154154b296a67e0c072.86674490.Active.mail@poczta.nazwa.pl you wrote:
Easy Albert, it was just a question about GPL ;-) also according to my local law I can ask any question. In that case, to make it official: I'm sorry anyone who felt offended and took it as an accusation, also LG. I just wanted to ask simple about GPL, maybe I took words wrong / poor english.
Just one more word: I can speak only ofr U-Boot - but if you really have proof that anybody uses U-Boot in a product, and they do not provide the source code when you ask for it, then please feel free to contact me and be assured that we will try to resolve this issue - one way or another.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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On Wednesday 16 December 2009 21:55:01 Rob Westfall wrote:
Where exactly is the line for what you have to provide vs what you don't have to provide?
We are building boards that are based on a standard board, but we have obviously had to modify include/config/<boardname> to setup for our hardware and create customized files to support our board. We have NOT modified files outside of customizing a /include/config/<boardname> and creating a board/<boardname> directory based on a existing board that is already released from the cpu vendor.
why does it really matter. a tarball of a few files is just as easy as a tarball of the whole tree. -mike
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 21:55:01 Rob Westfall wrote:
Where exactly is the line for what you have to provide vs what you don't have to provide?
also, this is what you should be asking your lawyers. legal advice on random mailing lists is a waste of time. -mike
Dear Rob Westfall,
In message 63e059e40912161855q31eb64e4h84f8fbbdb088ab44@mail.gmail.com you wrote:
Where exactly is the line for what you have to provide vs what you don't have to provide?
If you want to know exactly, then please read the GPL itself (see file COPYING in the top level directory) or http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
We are building boards that are based on a standard board, but we have obviously had to modify include/config/<boardname> to setup for our hardware and create customized files to support our board. We have NOT modified files outside of customizing a /include/config/<boardname> and creating a board/<boardname> directory based on a existing board that is already released from the cpu vendor.
For a quick summary, see "A Practical Guide to GPL Compliance" at http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/compliance-guide.html
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
On Wed 16 Dec 2009 21:55, Rob Westfall pondered:
Where exactly is the line for what you have to provide vs what you don't have to provide?
We are building boards that are based on a standard board, but we have obviously had to modify include/config/<boardname> to setup for our hardware and create customized files to support our board. We have NOT modified files outside of customizing a /include/config/<boardname> and creating a board/<boardname> directory based on a existing board that is already released from the cpu vendor.
The Free Software Foundation has this to say:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DistributingSourceIsInconvenient
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