> >The question of licensing of such ROM code is a completely separate >issue. We are not trying to hide some proprietary code by putting it >inside of a ROM to keep it hidden. In fact, you can disassemble the >ROM code and see it quite readily - and you know all of the entry points. >Whether we can distribute our ROM code under a GPL compatible license >is not something I know at this time. Just as you can't compile a >binary using Linux kernel headers and claim that your binary is not >subject to the GPL, our ROM code includes headers from other parts of >our system that are specifically not under the GPL. How this affects >the final license under which the ROM is distributed is not something >I think we know at this time. The code _you_ wrote can be put under any license(s) you want, so in the worst case you do not need to rewrite your .c files. Jan Engelhardt --
