Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] Clarify applicable licensing terms in COPYING file.

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:29:17AM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk wd@denx.de

COPYING | 9 ++++++++- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING index f616ab9..9930863 100644 --- a/COPYING +++ b/COPYING @@ -1,4 +1,11 @@

• NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover the so-called "standalone"

• U-Boot is free software. It is copyrighted by Wolfgang Denk and

+many others who contributed code (see the actual source code for +details). You can redistribute U-Boot and/or modify it under the +terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free +Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License (see text +below), or (at your option) any later version.

But there is code in U-Boot that cannot be distributed under later versions of the GPL...

-Scott