[coreboot] Licensing question

Robinson Tryon bishop.robinson at gmail.com
Sat Dec 18 01:24:47 CET 2010


On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Vibrans, Frank <Frank.Vibrans at amd.com> wrote:
> The Open Source Review Board of AMD has decided the upcoming release of
> Agesa and the chipset CIM modules for our Family14h CPU will be under a dual
> license: GPLv2 and BSD.  As the coreboot community, do you have any issue
> with this?  If not, are there any specific coreboot requirements that must
> be met because of the dual license scheme?  Thanks for your help.

I believe that coreboot is GPLv2+, so for maximum license
compatibility, all AMD code would preferably be GPLv2+ (and not just
GPLv2).


Thanks,
--R




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