On Thursday, August 07, 2014 at 11:36:50 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
Dear Jeroen,
In message 53E3EC54.4090002@myspectrum.nl you wrote:
So the argument about incompatible licenses is valid here. Should u-boot switch to GPLv3 you need to hunt down that file again and this
You would have to rewrite the major part of U-Boot or to cripple it
noise ^ not
to uselessness if you try to release it under GPLv3. I cannot see anybody investing any efforts in that direction; all these threads about a potential GPLv3 switch are just a hollow scarecrow.
sorry, can't parse that.
no, this was nicely formatted in my mail editor. Just wanted to point out you forgot a "not". You mentioned "to cripple it" you more then like ment "to _not_ cripple it". But the whitespace got lost along the way.
No, I did NOT forget a "not".
There is an awful lot of GPLv2 (V2 only) code in U-Boot.
OK, so we need a GPLv2-compatible header file. That's the conclusion.
Can we get one or how shall we proceed in the opposite case please?
Best regards, Marek Vasut