Dear Sebastian, In message <53e37f2d.5090...@linutronix.de> you wrote: > > > I think we should start considering getting some kind of a legal conseling > > here, > > or do we actually have one already ? > > I used the gnu page back then. Apache2 is compatible with GPLv3 but not > with GPLv2 [0]. Some parts of the code I played around (the android > image header file for instance) was under the Apache2 license and in > another git tree under the two-clause BSD license which was compatible > with GPLv2 [1].
We definitely need GPLv2 compatibility. > So the argument about incompatible licenses is valid here. Should > u-boot switch to GPLv3 you need to hunt down that file again and this You would have to rewrite the major part of U-Boot or to cripple it to uselessness if you try to release it under GPLv3. I cannot see anybody investing any efforts in that direction; all these threads about a potential GPLv3 switch are just a hollow scarecrow. It seems clear to me that GPLv3 is not an acceptable solution for developers, vendors, and end users simultanously. When I ask for GPLv2+ I hope that some later version of GPL may find better general support. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de "This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an actual emergency, do you really think we'd stick around to tell you?" _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
