On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Detlev Zundeldzu@denx.de wrote:
Is there any chance of convincing those authors to change that?
Apart from the the above reasons, currently most people who voiced their opinion (not too many right now) oppose the move. The reasoning seems to be that companies using U-Boot inside a commercial product consider it to be "a neccessary precondition to only accept blessed firmware upgrades" (my wording). What motivates this argument is not completely clear to me. Maybe it is fear of being liable as a product vendor to faulty sw upgrades.
That isn't my reasoning. I license under GPLv2 because I like that license. I don't like GPLv3 because I think it is too complex and it tries to solve things that are non-problems for me.
GPLv2 expresses well how I want to license my code. GPLv3 does not.
g.