From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Warren Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:02:19 -0600 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 07/10] tegra20: add SPL config options for seaboard In-Reply-To: <20120607170448.GB16677@Hardy> References: <1338931225-12246-1-git-send-email-amartin@nvidia.com> <1338931225-12246-8-git-send-email-amartin@nvidia.com> <4FCF890B.60602@wwwdotorg.org> <20120607071501.GA13940@Hardy> <4FD0D8A5.40606@wwwdotorg.org> <20120607170448.GB16677@Hardy> Message-ID: <4FD108CB.2000801@wwwdotorg.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On 06/07/2012 11:04 AM, Sughosh Ganu wrote: > On Thu Jun 07, 2012 at 10:36:53AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote: >> On 06/07/2012 01:15 AM, Sughosh Ganu wrote: >>> On Wed Jun 06, 2012 at 10:44:59AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote: >>>> On 06/05/2012 03:20 PM, Allen Martin wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>> diff --git a/include/configs/tegra2-spl.h b/include/configs/tegra2-spl.h >>>> >>>>> + * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of >>>>> + * the License, or (at your option) any later version. >>>> >>>> Being a new file, this should be GPLv2 not GPLv2+. >>> >>> u-boot uses GPLv2+. >>> >>> http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/U-Boot/Patches#Attributing_Code_Copyrights_Sign >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot at lists.denx.de/msg26569.html >> >> Sughosh, >> >> I guess I'm a little confused here. >> >> COPYING in the U-Boot source tree states the following: >> >>> 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 version 2 of the GNU General Public License as published by >>> the Free Software Foundation. Most of it can also be distributed, >>> at your option, under any later version of the GNU General Public >>> License -- see individual files for exceptions. >> >> ... which explicitly allows for either GPLv2 or GPLv2+ code. There is >> certainly GPLv2-only code already in U-Boot. Why do you say that >> GPLv2-only code isn't allowed? > > I guess that could be because some of the existing files in u-boot > are released under GPLv2 only license -- hence a separate mention > that most of the files can be distributed under any later version > too . Both Wolfgang and Detlev have stated many a times on the > mailing list earlier that all new files need to be released under > GPLv2+, and not GPLv2 only. Hmmm. It seems like a good idea for COPYING to be updated to be explicit re: why that exemption is there, to avoid future confusion. I assume the requirement for GPLv2+ only applies to new code written for U-Boot, not existing code that's being taken from or derived from some other GPLv2-only project?