[Cbe-oss-dev] PS3 lv1 calls under a BSD-style license

[Michael Ellerman]

On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 01:02 +0200, Daniel Collin wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> Me and some fellow programmers are working on making a small 
> "bootloader" for the PS3.
> It will run as an "OtherOS" like Linux does but will boot much faster 
> and the way you will program it is to compile on PC,
> upload elf (over network for example) and execute it (debugging is also 
> planned).
>  
> All the code is written from scratch and will be released under BSD (or 
> very close to) license meaning that people can use the code and release 
> binaries without also releasing the source.
>  
> One thing we haven't rewritten is the lv1 calls used in the linux kernel 
> (the files are: ps3-hvcall.S, hvcall.S and lv1call.h)
>  
> The problem is that these files are licensed under the GPL license which 
> is incompatible with BSD.

Or is the problem that you've decided to use the BSD license, which is
incompatible with the GPL :)

cheers

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