From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott Wood Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:57:55 -0500 Subject: [U-Boot] U-book and GPLv3? (fwd) In-Reply-To: References: <20090618145128.69F27832E416@gemini.denx.de> <200906240743.03475.vapier@gentoo.org> <200906241038.46085.vapier@gentoo.org> Message-ID: <4A425B13.8020006@freescale.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Detlev Zundel wrote: >> i personally dont have a problem with people locking their hardware. >> that is their choice and the GPLv2 allows them that freedom. > > You have a strange definition of freedom - for you it is limited to the > provider of the devices not to the users of the devices. I guess this > is what this all boils down to. No, it is "let the device providers and the users who have *chosen* to use those devices sort it out themselves, *I'm* not restricting anyone". It's not "strange" or "standing on your head", it's just a different opinion. -Scott