On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Jon Smirl wrote:
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Wolfgang Denkwd@denx.de wrote:
Dear Richard,
In message E1MHHUe-00046l-SR@fencepost.gnu.org you wrote:
Have you considered moving U-boot to "GPLv3-or-later"?
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.
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 totally agree with all the above. And if this happened I will be among those who move to the new forked code.
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