[U-Boot] u-boot-v2 and GPL license version?

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Thursday 09 July 2009 07:21:16 Detlev Zundel wrote:
> > Wolfgang's last word was pretty adamant about taking U-Boot to GPLv3.  I
> > see the U-Boot v2 GPLv3/GPLv2-plugin technique as a way to take the core
> > to GPLv3 without "needlessly" re-writing the parts we've borrowed from
> > linux (in fact, it encourages borrowing from linux, which is a Good
> > Thing[tm]).
>
> Asking Linux authors to license their code as GPLv2+ is also an option.
> Incidentally drivers/rtc-bfin.c is one example of "GPL-2 or later" in
> the Linux tree.

the Blackfin code has been licensed under "GPLv2 or later only" as a courtesy.  
we dont care what other people do with it so long as the places where we have 
to maintain it stay GPLv2.  apparently this was naive of us wrt u-boot.
-mike
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