Bug#946959: RFS: coreboot/4.10-1 [ITP] -- Coreboot firmware utilities
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 02:46:32PM +0100, Gürkan Myczko wrote:
> 14:40 < tarzeau> coreboot sources are partly GPL-2-only (aka GPL-2) some are
> GPL-2-or-later (aka GPL-2+), is it possible to clean that up?
> 14:40 < tarzeau> relicense to one?
> 14:40 < maxii> but cb_parse_framebuffer() doesn't seem to get called
> 14:40 < tarzeau> debian/ubuntu packaging effort details:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=946959
> 14:41 < maxii> nico_h: I think I am seeing the problem, not the solution.
> But at least a possible reason/the origin of the problem
> 14:41 < nico_h> tarzeau: you can just ship it as GPL-2-only, if that makes
> it easier
> 14:42 < tarzeau> well not really an option, i'm not the authority of the
> source files, so only authority of them can do so (if i did, it'd be a fork)
> 14:43 < tarzeau> (and even if i did and wanted, i can't just relicense stuff
> that's already published by another license)
> 14:44 -!- r1mikey [~r1mikey@2620:10d:c092:200::1:2fbd] has joined #coreboot
> 14:44 < nico_h> tarzeau: there's the point, you can relicense it in this
> case. and if you ship binaries that are build from both GPL-2-only and
> GPL-2-or-later you implicitly relicense parts of it anyway
I don't see any problem either. GPL-2-only and GPL-2-or-higher are very
compatible licenses. If you combine them, the result is GPL-2-only
(although if someone picks just GPL2+ pieces, they revert to compatibility
with GPL3 and so on.
That's the very point of license alternatives.
Meow!
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⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ The ill-thought conversion to time64_t will make us suffer from
⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ the Y292B problem. So let's move the Epoch by 435451400064000000
⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ (plus a safety margin in case of bad physicists) and make it
⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ unsigned -- that'll almost double the range.
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