On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Jon Smirl wrote: > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Wolfgang Denk<w...@denx.de> wrote: > > Dear Richard, > > > > In message <e1mhhue-00046l...@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.
I totally agree with all the above. And if this happened I will be among those who move to the new forked code. --- ****************************************************************** * k...@home KOI8 Net < > The impossible we do immediately. * * Las Vegas NV, USA < > Miracles require 24-hour notice. * ****************************************************************** _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
