Kontron AM4150 U-Boot Bootloader - Manual (Page 5)

AM4150 U-Boot Bootloader Preface
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P R E L I M I N A R Y
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 un-
der the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Soft-
ware 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. In-
cluding 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
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GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, June 1991
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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changing it is not allowed.
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