7 Jul
2009
7 Jul
'09
11:24 p.m.
Dear Remy Bohmer,
In message 3efb10970907071307u662f7d87g5a4a0c0b0740b973@mail.gmail.com you wrote:
As far as I understand it, a move to gpl3 will need the approval of _all_ copyright holders to make such a switch. (not all names are listed in the headers)
Only for files where such a switch is not trivial by exercising the "version 2 (or any later version)" clause. And this is just 184 files so far (3.x % of all files).
This move to gpl3 will throw up a huge barrier for importing future Linux code in U-boot, because Linux is still gpl2-only, and as such Linux code can no longer be used in U-boot...
Without actually trying it out nobody can say how big such a barrier actually might be...
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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