[U-Boot] U-book and GPLv3? (fwd)

Thomas Doerfler
2009-06-25T18:46:10Z

Hi,

since this threads gets more and more interesting, just a question out
of my curiosity:

which operating systems, that get typically booted using U-Boot are
already under GPL3?

I know that the license of the Boot Loader has nothing to do with the
license of the booted software, what is the "political benefit" to put
the boot loader under GPLv3, when the major OS of the software (e.g.
linux) are under GPLv2?

wkr,

Thomas Doerfler.

Wolfgang Denk schrieb:
> Hello,
>
> I was asked about relicensing U-Boot as GPLv3:
>
> ------- Forwarded Message
>
> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:17:28 -0400
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> To: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
> Subject: U-book and GPLv3?
>
> I really enjoy the name U-boot.
> What are the advantages of U-boot over PMON?
>
> Have you considered moving U-boot to "GPLv3-or-later"?
>
>
> ------- End of Forwarded Message
>
>
> I know that we have had similar discussions before (see for example
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/24029), but I
> would like to take the chance and re-poll what the community's
> opinion about this is.
>
> Comments welcome...
>
> [I intend to summarize and send this summary to RMS and post it here.]
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>

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