On 18/6/19 2:56 am, Gedare Bloom wrote: > On Sat, Jun 8, 2019 at 8:25 PM Chris Johns <chr...@rtems.org> wrote: >> >> On 8/6/19 1:45 am, Christian Mauderer wrote: >>> Note that basically all device tree files that I have found yet are forked >>> from the Linux ones. >> >> Yes, I understand this is the case. >> >>> They are all GPL. >> >> We need to work with these files and respect the license they are under. I >> think >> GPL DTS is OK if these files are not linked into an executable. I am not sure >> where you stand in relation to the GPL license if you link a GPL dtb into an >> executable. An overlay we create under a suitable license should be fine. >> > > If you apply the overlay using host tools, then the license > implications are problematic since you will be distributing a binary > program that is combining GPL code, the entire image comes under GPL. > Building the overlay online is more defensible, since you can > distribute the dtb separately.
I agree. Chris _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@rtems.org http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/users
