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authorJulius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>2014-06-11 14:16:35 -0700
committerMarc Jones <marc.jones@se-eng.com>2015-01-09 07:06:27 +0100
commit22adcd67a27e1a99a743ef26b49ae2afab6fe624 (patch)
treee35a6b02b0ff3dd0f189648580350601451f948a /payloads/libpayload/LICENSES
parent092cac58dee8fb87e0615d060a9de0f7ec693ee4 (diff)
downloadcoreboot-22adcd67a27e1a99a743ef26b49ae2afab6fe624.tar.xz
libpayload: Introduce new Kconfig to explicitly allow GPL code
There have been leaks of GPL code into libpayload for a while now, for new features or improvements that require third party code with no adequate alternative among BSD-licensed software. It seems silly and counter-productive to keep holding back features and performance improvements from libpayload for a use-case (proprietary payloads) that doesn't even seem to be implemented anywhere to date. Open-source payloads should not need to suffer to appease commercial ones. Instead, this patch introduces a new Kconfig option to explicitly allow inclusion of GPL code. It will use Kconfig dependencies and/or Makefile rules to ensure that no GPL code can end up in the final payload if that option is unset, allowing proprietary payloads to keep working with the existing BSD-licensed feature set. New features and patches (that are sufficiently separate and self-contained to allow guarding through this config option) can choose whether to import GPL code, and need to depend on this option if they do. Also clean up all (known) existing uses of GPL code to depend on the new option, add some recent third-party imports to the LICENSES file, and relicense the selfboot.c files to BSD with permission of the author. BUG=chrome-os-partner:24957 TEST=Compiled Falco and Nyan_Big both with and without the new option, disassembled output binaries to ensure that memcpy() looks as expected. Original-Change-Id: I6e3a75b1a8e46291c75a876844c7a01f7d3f2a0e Original-Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org> Original-Signed-off-by: Hung-Te Lin <hungte@chromium.org> Original-Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/203513 Original-Reviewed-by: Stefan Reinauer <reinauer@chromium.org> (cherry picked from commit d8e5a9fdf583b5ac861f34baea6a16c4d8536512) Signed-off-by: Marc Jones <marc.jones@se-eng.com> Change-Id: I446fef028264c793b946dd9f765e446bf708b4db Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/8118 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Stefan Reinauer <stefan.reinauer@coreboot.org> Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
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diff --git a/payloads/libpayload/LICENSES b/payloads/libpayload/LICENSES
index 49388923b9..f340eadb7d 100644
--- a/payloads/libpayload/LICENSES
+++ b/payloads/libpayload/LICENSES
@@ -34,8 +34,20 @@ BSD license:
For some parts, which were taken from external projects, other (compatible)
licenses may apply. Please check the individual source files for details,
-or see the section below for an overview of third-party code in libpayload.
+or see the section at the bottom of this file for an overview of third-party
+code in libpayload.
+Some parts of libpayload are licensed under the GNU General Public License
+(version 2). These parts are clearly separated by the CONFIG_GPL Kconfig
+option (default off), and will not be linked into the output payload unless
+that option has been chosen. The full text of that license is provided in the
+LICENSE_GPL file.
+
+(Please note that the coreboot project makes a best effort to keep licensing
+information up to date and accurate, but provides no legal guarantees to that
+regard. If you redistribute libpayload code in source or binary form, it is
+your liability to ensure that you conform to all legal requirements that this
+might entail.)
Third-party Code and License Overview
-------------------------------------
@@ -110,3 +122,12 @@ holders, and the exact license terms that apply.
Original files: src/lib/libc/hash/sha1.c
Current version we use: CVS revision 1.20 2005/08/08
+* arch/arm/mem*.S: GPLv2
+ Source: Linux, http://www.kernel.org
+ Original files: arch/arm/lib/mem*.S
+ Current version we use: 3.9 (418df63adac56841ef6b0f1fcf435bc64d4ed177)
+
+* arch/x86/string.c: LGPLv2.1, modified to GPLv2 under the terms of section 3
+ Source: GNU C Library (glibc), http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html
+ Original files: sysdeps/i386/memset.c
+ Current version we use: 2.14