Hi Allen,
I just want to make my comments public, which I already explained to Eric
Brower from NVIDIA. In general, the L4T license is a bit better than the
original one, but doesn't really apply to the *miniloader.h files. The problem
is that the *miniloader.h are not installed on any operting system
(Linux/FreeBSD), but are instead loaded into the SoC. Even if we assume they
are installed (or better a copy is placed) on some "Personal Computer", they
cannot be executed there. Detailed comments below.
Am Montag, 17. Juni 2013, 20:25:37 schrieb Allen Martin:
> This changes the license under which the miniloader files are
> distributed to the same license used for the binary portions of the
> Tegra L4T distribution. This should hopefully make the license more
> palatable to distributions.
>
> Also changed the description to say that the license applies to all
> files in the miniloader directory instead of individually listing the
> files. This should hopefully prevent it from becoming stale.
>
> Signed-off-by: Allen Martin <amartin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> LICENSE | 284
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------------------- 1 file
> changed, 114 insertions(+), 170 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
> index e126375..4bd5c60 100644
> --- a/LICENSE
> +++ b/LICENSE
> @@ -26,189 +26,133 @@
> # OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
>
>
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While tegra has some GPU, I don't think this is required. Also a "personal
computer" also isn't required. I can upload the miniloaders from any embedded
board.
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As Stephen mentioned already, this is a bit strict.
> +2.1.2 Linux/FreeBSD Exception. Notwithstanding the foregoing terms
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As said above, the software cannot be used on these operating systems. Beside
this, why limit it to Linux/FreeBSD? E.g. debian also supports GNU/Hurd or
Solaris. What about Darwin (MacOS) or Windows? I know this comes from L4T
where the drivers can only be executed on this OSes, but again, this doesn't
apply to the *miniloader.h files. Also note that the rest of tegrarcm is
licensed under MIT license and can be installed everywhere...
Marc
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