Hi,
this is the copyright header:
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and this the license file:
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I'm afraid, that this is the licence with the advertising clause? (Redistribution in binary form...)?
Cheers, Pattrick
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Jordan Crouse jordan@cosmicpenguin.net wrote:
Stefan Reinauer wrote:
Jordan Crouse wrote:
Any thoughts?
Very very cool Patrick. If it has a BSD license it should be no problem for coreboot. I say the more payloads the better :-)
Incorrect Joseph - most legal opinions are that BSD and GPL are incompatible, so it is a problem for coreboot. Not a problem for libpayload though - so we can borrow what we need.
Well, obviously as long as we carry around a copy of x86emu (which is BSD, not GPL), we can accept BSD licensed patches to that code.
I'm a bit surprised about "most legal opinions". Whose opinions are they? Any pointers? Nobody ever complained about me linking libpayload into FILO, for example, so it's not that incompatible). Do I have to drop libpayload again?
I'll clarify - the GPL is incompatible with the original BSD license with the advertising clause [1]. I'm not sure if YABEL falls into that area, but I generally dislike mixing BSD and GPL to avoid any such arguments. I didn't know that x86emu was BSD, but just another great reason to get rid of it all together.
Linking is something completely different - the reason why the libpayload code is BSD is so you can apply whatever license you want to the final product. You aren't violating the rights of either the copyright holders of libpayload or the copyright holders of FILO if you link a BSDed library in a GPLed program, or in a proprietary binary for that matter. You only get into trouble when you copy the BSD code into your product and don't retain the copyright notices. Are you doing that?
Jordan
[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#OrigBSD
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