[coreboot] Further coreboot releases, setting new standards

Zaolin zaolin at das-labor.org
Thu Nov 29 04:59:55 CET 2018


FYI https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/29820/3/MAINTAINERS#219

We will take care of the SoC support. I think Werner will jump in as well.

On 28.11.18 22:04, Nico Huber wrote:
> On 28.11.18 02:59, Jay Talbott wrote:
>> Although I have participated in a number of reviews of coreboot patches,
>> I/we have not directly upstreamed any patches to coreboot.org. As a pure
>> consulting service, the ports and customizations that we have made to
>> coreboot to support our clients' hardware (including the work done for
>> Intel) is turned over to the client at the end of each project to do
>> with as they please. If they choose to upstream it or not to
>> coreboot.org is really up to them, and if they do, it would get
>> upstreamed by them, not by us, since they then own the code.
> You could change the terms, I guess. Many people don't care that much.
> So you could ask your clients ahead if they'd agree to license the code
> under the GPL (or maybe only the parts that are not in their mainboard/
> dir). If somebody agrees and it turns out later that there is a commit
> that could benefit upstream, you can push it.
>
> Nico
>




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