[coreboot] AMD's binary-only AGESA libraries

[Patrick Georgi]

Am 05.11.2014 um 17:04 schrieb Kyösti Mälkki:
> You have verified binaryPI uses (almost) exactly the same API as
> open-source AGESA so far. This complex API between AGESA component
> and coreboot does not fall under the mere aggregation terms of GPL,
> it is a form of runtime linking. In other words the distribution of
> binaryPI violates rights of every copyright holder in the coreboot
> sourcebase. I am not fond of Google's MRC binary or Intel's FSP
> either, but their implementation appears to be a single entry/exit
> with an array of platform configuration data.
Please be careful with statements like that (that is: just don't. please.)

I talked with a number of lawyers over matters like that (some of them specialists in various jurisdictions' copyright laws), and they could make all kinds of compelling cases - for pretty much every outcome.
All that "does situation X violate term Y in license Z" stuff is a matter of degrees. The result may even depend on the country in which you pose the question.


Patrick

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