[coreboot] libpayload: OHCI stack

Daniel Mack daniel at caiaq.de
Mon Oct 5 09:55:00 CEST 2009


On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 09:51:22AM +0200, Patrick Georgi wrote:
> Am Montag, den 05.10.2009, 10:44 +0800 schrieb Daniel Mack:
> > This work was originally started by Leandro Dorilex and we worked
> > together on this. However, his first approach to develop everything from
> > scratch was a little too ambitious and so we decided to take an existing
> > stack from U-Boot (which was again derived from Linux 2.4).
> Thank you for your effort.
> Given its ancestry, I suppose this code is GPL? If so, we can't merge it
> upstream easily, as libpayload is BSD.

The code is derived from GPL'ed sources, so it's GPL, yes. But quoting
from the LICENSES file:

  The copyright on libpayload is owned by various individual developers
  and/or companies. Please check the individual source files for details.

So where so you see the problem?

Daniel






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