[U-Boot] [PATCH] Clarify applicable licensing terms in COPYING file.

Scott Wood
2009-11-18T18:01:15Z

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:29:17AM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
> ---
> COPYING | 9 ++++++++-
> 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
> index f616ab9..9930863 100644
> --- a/COPYING
> +++ b/COPYING
> @@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
> - NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover the so-called "standalone"
> + U-Boot is free software. It is copyrighted by Wolfgang Denk and
> +many others who contributed code (see the actual source code for
> +details). You can redistribute U-Boot and/or modify it under the
> +terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
> +Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License (see text
> +below), or (at your option) any later version.

But there is code in U-Boot that cannot be distributed under later versions
of the GPL...

-Scott