Re: [coreboot] How to properly conform with GPLv2 for Coreboot and SeaBIOS on an embedded system

[Zoran Stojsavljevic]

> For their part, Siemens releases the code upstream: https://review.coreboot.org/cgit/coreboot.git/tree/src/mainboard/siemens

For what I know about Werner (Zeh), the guy is pure Genius. It was all
My Pleasure to work together with Werner while I worked for INTEL
GmbH, supporting also Siemens Industrial (2011-2016).

Werner, thank you very much for all hard work and contribution you
brought and will continue to bring to Coreboot, and lessons/knowledge
you unselfishly gave to me/us here!

Zoran Stojsavljevic
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On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 2:00 AM, David Hendricks
 wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 10:05 PM, Lewis, Ian (Microstar Laboratories)
>  wrote:
> > With a few minutes spent looking, it is not at all clear to me how Siemens
> > handles their GPL responsibility and whether they attempt to provide
> > compliance for their customers or not.
>
> For their part, Siemens releases the code upstream:
> https://review.coreboot.org/cgit/coreboot.git/tree/src/mainboard/siemens
>
> As with your case the firmware for their products is basically invisible to
> the customer. Nevertheless if the customer wants to examine the code or make
> changes they can easily do so. Relevant license information is found in the
> header of each source code file as well as the COPYING file at the root of
> the coreboot directory.
>
> Werner (cc'd) might be able to share some more details about how they handle
> compliance matters.