Re: [Minios-devel] [PATCH 40/40] mini-os: compile the dtc submodule for arm64

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 06:11:45PM +0000, Julien Grall wrote:
> Hi Shijie,
> 
> On 03/11/17 03:12, Huang Shijie wrote:
> > This patch changes the makefile, make it to compile the
> > DTC submodule for arm64 code.
> > 
> > This patch also creates .gitmodules for "dtc".
> 
> Mini-OS community does not control the DTC git repository. This means that a
> patch can be added in dtc introducing a breakage and will appear in released
> Mini-OS because master is cloned.
> 

Yes.

> To prevent that we at least need to give a commit/tag to use for stable
> release.
> 

And yes.

> Furthermore, while libfdt is dual-license BDS/GPL, dtc is GPL. I am a bit
> worry to pull, even not used. I think it would be better to have a copy of
> libfdt within Mini-OS.
> 
> Wei, Samuel, any opinions on it?
> 

Having GPL code in Mini-os will turn the resulting binary into GPL AIUI,
but IANAL.

To err on the safe side, having libfdt (BSD?) code in tree is better.

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