On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 10:19:36 -0700 Stephen Warren <swar...@wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> On 11/04/2012 11:02 AM, Anatolij Gustschin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:51:34 -0600 > > Stephen Warren <swar...@wwwdotorg.org> wrote: > >> The firmware running on the bcm2835 SoC's VideoCore CPU manages the > >> display controller. Add a simple "LCD" drive that communicates with the > ... > >> +++ b/drivers/video/bcm2835.c > >> @@ -0,0 +1,126 @@ > >> +/* > >> + * (C) Copyright 2012 Stephen Warren > >> + * > >> + * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this > >> + * project. > >> + * > >> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or > >> + * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License > >> + * version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation. > > > > All new code that gets added to U-Boot shall use GPLv3-compatible > > licensing since there are plans to move later versions of U-Boot to > > version 3 of the GPL. Therefore we ask for "GPL, either version 2, or > > (at your option) any later version" phrase. > > Um, that doesn't seem possible. Or, is U-Boot simply going to delete any > GPL-v2-only code? I don't have stats, but I would guess that there is a > significant amount of GPL-v2-only code, isn't there? I do not have stats too and do not know the details how it is supposed to be done. In my understanding switching go GPLv3 it is a long term goal and we shouldn't make it harder by adding more GPLv3 incompatible code. Ccing Wolfgang, maybe Wolfgang can tell more here. > BTW, is this documented anywhere for reference? It is documented here [1]. Thanks, Anatolij [1] http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/U-Boot/Patches#Notes _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
