Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/amlogic-boot-fip: new package

[Vyacheslav via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>]

Hi, Neil!
Can you help us with understanding license for Amlogic binaries in
https://github.com/LibreELEC/amlogic-boot-fip?


22.01.2022 18:09, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 18:05:06 +0300
> Vyacheslav <adeep@lexina.in> wrote:
> 
>>> So how can the contents of this repository be useful? OK, then can be
>>> used locally for your own experiments. But for building an actual
>>> device that you can ship/provide to others, using the contents of that
>>> repository, because Amlogic does not even allow you to distribute the
>>> contents of this repository.
>>>
>>> So I am wondering if it's really reasonable to package this in
>>> Buildroot.
>>>    
>> You already have package/odroidc2-firmware with same license.
>> amlogic-boot-fip just put all similar binaries together and Neil
>> Armstrong made a build system for aml uboot binaries.
> 
> Well, I wasn't aware package/odroidc2-firmware was under the same
> restrictive license. Are the license terms for
> package/odroidc2-firmware available somewhere? This package is
> downloaded from https://github.com/hardkernel/u-boot, but I don't see
> the license terms from Amlogic preventing redistribution. Of course, I
> understand that they simply may be missing (which would be really bad!).
> 
> But how can anyone use those blobs? You can't redistribute them.
> According to their license, just putting them on Github is not even
> allowed.
> 
> Thomas
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