9 Jul
2009
9 Jul
'09
5:29 p.m.
On Thursday 09 July 2009 07:21:16 Detlev Zundel wrote:
Wolfgang's last word was pretty adamant about taking U-Boot to GPLv3. I see the U-Boot v2 GPLv3/GPLv2-plugin technique as a way to take the core to GPLv3 without "needlessly" re-writing the parts we've borrowed from linux (in fact, it encourages borrowing from linux, which is a Good Thing[tm]).
Asking Linux authors to license their code as GPLv2+ is also an option. Incidentally drivers/rtc-bfin.c is one example of "GPL-2 or later" in the Linux tree.
the Blackfin code has been licensed under "GPLv2 or later only" as a courtesy. we dont care what other people do with it so long as the places where we have to maintain it stay GPLv2. apparently this was naive of us wrt u-boot. -mike