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

Detlev Zundel
2009-06-24T16:56:13Z

Hi Jon,

> There is an enormous practical consideration stopping the licensing
> change. u-boot has not required copyright assignment. This means that
> every single person that has contributed code to u-boot needs to give
> their permission for the change.

This is not correct. People who wrote code under "GPLv2 or later"
licenses would not need to be queried. The project could use the
sources under a later version.

Cheers
Detlev

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