[U-Boot] U-book and GPLv3? (fwd)

[Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>]

Hi Mike,

> On Tuesday 23 June 2009 15:26:35 Scott Wood wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 06:33:53PM +0200, Detlev Zundel wrote:
>> > Apart from the the above reasons, currently most people who voiced their
>> > opinion (not too many right now) oppose the move.  The reasoning seems
>> > to be that companies using U-Boot inside a commercial product consider
>> > it to be "a neccessary precondition to only accept blessed firmware
>> > upgrades" (my wording).  What motivates this argument is not completely
>> > clear to me.  Maybe it is fear of being liable as a product vendor to
>> > faulty sw upgrades.
>>
>> Regardless of what motivates it, people who sell hardware to such
>> customers (and who also contribute to u-boot) may not want to risk losing
>> that business by pushing GPLv3 on them.
>
> indeed.  expecting businesses to push other peoples' agenda isnt realistic, 
> especially when the conversation is pretty much a net customer loss for said 
> businesses.

It seems so clear for you, but it isn't for me - where is this net loss
for them, what exactly do they loose?

> customers arent going to appear because your business is now pushing
> GPLv3 instead of GPLv2, but they will certainly disappear.

Why will they disappear?

Cheers
  Detlev

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