[U-Boot] U-book and GPLv3?

ksi at koi8.net
2009-07-06T16:06:32Z

On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Jon Smirl wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Wolfgang Denk<wd@denx.de> wrote:
> > Dear Richard,
> >
> > In message <E1MHHUe-00046l-SR@fencepost.gnu.org> you wrote:
> >>
> >> Have you considered moving U-boot to "GPLv3-or-later"?
>
> If u-boot goes GPLv3 it will simply cause the people that need secure
> boot to switch boot loaders. That will result in a loss of u-boot
> developers. It is also a lot of pointless administrative work changing
> licenses and rewriting code. Even worse, you'll could cause a u-boot
> fork at the point of the license change since the code in front of the
> change will still be licensed GPLv2 and it can't be retracted.
>
> Why do you want to take on a bunch of pointless administrative work
> that is going to result in losing developers? That time could be spent
> productively writing code.

I totally agree with all the above. And if this happened I will be among
those who move to the new forked code.

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