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1 NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover the so-called "standalone"
2applications that use U-Boot services by means of the jump table
3provided by U-Boot exactly for this purpose - this is merely
4considered normal use of U-Boot, and does *not* fall under the
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5heading of "derived work".
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7 The header files "include/image.h" and "include/asm-*/u-boot.h"
8define interfaces to U-Boot. Including these (unmodified) header
9files in another file is considered normal use of U-Boot, and does
10*not* fall under the heading of "derived work".
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12 Also note that the GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software
13Foundation, but the instance of code that it refers to (the U-Boot
14source code) is copyrighted by me and others who actually wrote it.
15-- Wolfgang Denk
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