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Missing license information #58
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The canonical home of the mkknlimg and knlinfo tools is now the Linux tree in the scripts directory. Different branches may contain different versions making external copies such as these likely to be inconsistent with at least one of them, so delete the the copies. See: #58
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The source code to the toolchain is the source code to GCC and the associated utilities and libraries as at version 4.9.3, downloaded and built using crosstool-ng. @popcornmix can comment on any modifications made. The mkknlimg and knlinfo utilities are now found in the scripts directory of the kernel tree, where they are covered by the licence found in the COPYING file. As the README now says, it is likely they aren't needed because current firmware assumes that the kernel is DT-capable (the standard RPi builds of the rpi-4.4.y tree require the use of Device Tree). The rest of the mkimage directory can probably also be deleted. |
The canonical home of the mkknlimg and knlinfo tools is now the Linux tree in the scripts directory. Different branches may contain different versions making external copies such as these likely to be inconsistent with at least one of them, so delete the the copies. See: raspberrypi/tools#58 Former-commit-id: f9667430988a99658e515160fe37735f23fc0405 [formerly bf8d56bed3d8b2c9b7221704d7e701158476bce9 [formerly 648a6eeb1e3c2b40af4eb34d88941ee0edeb3e9a]] Former-commit-id: 3b09403e0a712f1780b0c3371e2af28610172441 Former-commit-id: 2c39d53c739f673adf86ad9544b30f543ef579b5
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There is also no license information for the rpiboot tool |
There is already an issue open for adding a readme file (#10) and that would be nice to have. However, what is more important is to clarify the licenses of the various components in this repository. I would like to re-distribute the contents of 'mkimage' but need clarity on the license conditions.
Please add a top level COPYING or LICENSE file to let us know what we can do with this code.
Where do I find the source code of the toolchain in "arm-bcm2708/arm-rpi-4.9.3-linux-gnueabihf"?
Also, please clarify the license of mkimage/mkknlimg and mkimage/knlinfo. They simply say "Licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.". Is that the GPL v2, v3 or "v2 or later" or something else? It would be really helpful to include a full copy of the relevant version of the GPL in this repository.
Many Thanks,
Paul Barker