[U-Boot] [PATCH V2 4/4] video: add a driver for the bcm2835

Stephen Warren
2012-11-05T17:19:36Z

On 11/04/2012 11:02 AM, Anatolij Gustschin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:51:34 -0600
> Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>> The firmware running on the bcm2835 SoC's VideoCore CPU manages the
>> display controller. Add a simple "LCD" drive that communicates with the
...
>> +++ b/drivers/video/bcm2835.c
>> @@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
>> +/*
>> + * (C) Copyright 2012 Stephen Warren
>> + *
>> + * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
>> + * project.
>> + *
>> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>> + * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
>> + * version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
>
> All new code that gets added to U-Boot shall use GPLv3-compatible
> licensing since there are plans to move later versions of U-Boot to
> version 3 of the GPL. Therefore we ask for "GPL, either version 2, or
> (at your option) any later version" phrase.

Um, that doesn't seem possible. Or, is U-Boot simply going to delete any
GPL-v2-only code? I don't have stats, but I would guess that there is a
significant amount of GPL-v2-only code, isn't there?

BTW, is this documented anywhere for reference?