[U-Boot] U-book and GPLv3?

Jon Smirl
2009-07-06T12:41:13Z

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.

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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl at gmail.com