Kontron SMARC-sAMX6i - Manual (Page 30)

SMARC-sAMX6i / Bootloader Operation
5 Bootloader Operation
5.1 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 files 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” define interfaces to U-Boot. Including these
(unmodified) header files in another file 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
The valid license is the GNU general public license 2.0 which can be optained under following link .
5.1.1 Obtaining Source Code
The software included in this product contains copyrighted software that is licensed under the GPL. A copy of that license
can be found
here . You may obtain the complete Corresponding Source code from Kontron for a period of three years after
our last shipment of this product. Please contact Kontron Support for further assistance in obtaining the source code.
5.2 Introduction to U-Boot
U-Boot is an open source boot loader software developed and maintained by DENX Software Engineering GmbH
(
http://www.denx.de ). Kontron provides U-Boot with all its standard features as well as Kontron specific features for
usage with Kontron’s SMARC-sAMX6i.
This user guide provides specific information on Kontron’s implementation of U-Boot and its usage. Please refer to the
DENX website for up-to-date on-line documentation of all of U-Boot’s standard features.
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