[coreboot] [openvsa] patch: consistent application of LGPL

[Uwe Hermann]

On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 01:19:58PM -0800, Chris Kilgour wrote:
> [openvsa] 
>   AMD released the VSA code base under LGPL v2.1 in 2006, so

LGPL-v2.1-or-later to be precise.


>   Also add a copy of the LGPL v2.1 to the OpenVSA tree

Yep, good idea.


> Index: sysmgr/sysmgr.h.S
> ===================================================================
> --- sysmgr/sysmgr.h.S	(revision 2)
> +++ sysmgr/sysmgr.h.S	(working copy)
> @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@
> +/*
> +        Copyright (c) 2006 Advanced Micro Devices,Inc. ("AMD").
>  
> +        This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> +        modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
> +        License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
> +        version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later
> +        version.
> + 
> +        This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> +        but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> +        MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
> +        GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
> + 
> +        You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General
> +        Public License along with this library; if not, write to the
> +        Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330,
> +        Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
> +*/
>  
>  // Build flags for various optional features
>  #define HISTORY				 0	// History support (value determines size of history buffer; 0=disabled)

Patch looks good in general, but I'm not sure about the above change.
You're adding a license to a file which didn't have one before and where
you are not the copyright owner. I'm pretty sure the intention of AMD
was to release _all_ files under LGPL, but I'd still like to get an
ACK from someone at AMD, just to be sure.

Otherwise this is:
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe at hermann-uwe.de>


Uwe.
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