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There have been leaks of GPL code into libpayload for a while now, for new features or improvements that require third party code with no adequate alternative among BSD-licensed software. It seems silly and counter-productive to keep holding back features and performance improvements from libpayload for a use-case (proprietary payloads) that doesn't even seem to be implemented anywhere to date. Open-source payloads should not need to suffer to appease commercial ones. Instead, this patch introduces a new Kconfig option to explicitly allow inclusion of GPL code. It will use Kconfig dependencies and/or Makefile rules to ensure that no GPL code can end up in the final payload if that option is unset, allowing proprietary payloads to keep working with the existing BSD-licensed feature set. New features and patches (that are sufficiently separate and self-contained to allow guarding through this config option) can choose whether to import GPL code, and need to depend on this option if they do. Also clean up all (known) existing uses of GPL code to depend on the new option, add some recent third-party imports to the LICENSES file, and relicense the selfboot.c files to BSD with permission of the author. BUG=chrome-os-partner:24957 TEST=Compiled Falco and Nyan_Big both with and without the new option, disassembled output binaries to ensure that memcpy() looks as expected. Original-Change-Id: I6e3a75b1a8e46291c75a876844c7a01f7d3f2a0e Original-Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org> Original-Signed-off-by: Hung-Te Lin <hungte@chromium.org> Original-Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/203513 Original-Reviewed-by: Stefan Reinauer <reinauer@chromium.org> (cherry picked from commit d8e5a9fdf583b5ac861f34baea6a16c4d8536512) Signed-off-by: Marc Jones <marc.jones@se-eng.com> Change-Id: I446fef028264c793b946dd9f765e446bf708b4db Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/8118 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Stefan Reinauer <stefan.reinauer@coreboot.org> Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net> |
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------- coreboot README ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- coreboot is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) found in most computers. coreboot performs a little bit of hardware initialization and then executes additional boot logic, called a payload. With the separation of hardware initialization and later boot logic, coreboot can scale from specialized applications that run directly firmware, run operating systems in flash, load custom bootloaders, or implement firmware standards, like PC BIOS services or UEFI. This allows for systems to only include the features necessary in the target application, reducing the amount of code and flash space required. coreboot was formerly known as LinuxBIOS. Payloads -------- After the basic initialization of the hardware has been performed, any desired "payload" can be started by coreboot. See http://www.coreboot.org/Payloads for a list of supported payloads. Supported Hardware ------------------ coreboot supports a wide range of chipsets, devices, and mainboards. For details please consult: * http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards * http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Chipsets_and_Devices Build Requirements ------------------ * gcc / g++ * make Optional: * doxygen (for generating/viewing documentation) * iasl (for targets with ACPI support) * gdb (for better debugging facilities on some targets) * ncurses (for 'make menuconfig') * flex and bison (for regenerating parsers) Building coreboot ----------------- Please consult http://www.coreboot.org/Build_HOWTO for details. Testing coreboot Without Modifying Your Hardware ------------------------------------------------ If you want to test coreboot without any risks before you really decide to use it on your hardware, you can use the QEMU system emulator to run coreboot virtually in QEMU. Please see http://www.coreboot.org/QEMU for details. Website and Mailing List ------------------------ Further details on the project, a FAQ, many HOWTOs, news, development guidelines and more can be found on the coreboot website: http://www.coreboot.org You can contact us directly on the coreboot mailing list: http://www.coreboot.org/Mailinglist Copyright and License --------------------- The copyright on coreboot is owned by quite a large number of individual developers and companies. Please check the individual source files for details. coreboot is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). Some files are licensed under the "GPL (version 2, or any later version)", and some files are licensed under the "GPL, version 2". For some parts, which were derived from other projects, other (GPL-compatible) licenses may apply. Please check the individual source files for details. This makes the resulting coreboot images licensed under the GPL, version 2.