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6.9 Copyrights and Licensing
U-Boot is Free Software. It is copyrighted by Wolfgang Denk and many others who contributed code (see the actual source code
for details). You can redistribute U-Boot and/or modify it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation. Most of it can also be distributed, at your option, under any later version of the
GNU General Public License -- see individual f iles for exceptions.
NOTE! This license does *not* cover the so-called "standalone" applications that use U-Boot services by means of the jump
table provided by U-Boot exactly for this purpose - this is merely considered normal use of U-Boot, and does *not* fall under
the heading of “derived work”.
The header files “include/image.h” and “include/asm-*/u-boot.h” def ine interfaces to U-Boot. Including these (unmodified)
header f iles in another f ile is considered normal use of U-Boot, and does *not* fall under the heading of “derived work".
Also note that the GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation, but the instance of code that it refers to (the U-
Boot source code) is copyrighted by me and others who actually wrote it.
-- Wolfgang Denk
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GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, June 1991
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
Preamble
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To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the
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