On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Detlev Zundel<d...@denx.de> wrote: > 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.
There is a mix of GPLv2 or later and GPLv2 code. You will have to sort which license applies. Let's hope nobody modified a GPL v2 header in any file to say "GPL v2 or later". That would open a giant can of worms. This is a giant administrative nightmare. The effort for doing this exceeds the effort require to write a new boot loader. Require copyright assignment on the new boot loader and then the license can be easily changed. -- Jon Smirl jonsm...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
