Dear Jon,
In message 9e4733910907060541i6d59561asaa406522ae6558a2@mail.gmail.com you wrote:
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.
There is of course a certain probability that U-Boot might fork. That's OK - it's Free Software, and it's a community project.
And I don't share your pessimistic point of view. I've been through the same thing before when it came to using GNU/Linux in embedded systems ten years ago. Now look where we are today...
And I don't expect that we will have a GPLV3 release of U-Boot in the next few days or weeks :-) This is a process...
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 already explained this in my posting. No need to repeat it.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk