Hi Jon, > 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.
Sure. > 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. We can trace with through the version control - it is doable. > 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. How do you arrive at this conclusion? I rather say that if one was to seriously try this it can be done in a few weeks/months by one or two persons. The FSF offered to help track down people even. Reimplementing the current U-Boot code base is orders of magnitude away from this. Cheers Detlev -- Q: What does FAQ stand for? A: We are Frequently Asked this Question, and we have no idea. -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-40 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: d...@denx.de _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
