25 Jun
2009
25 Jun
'09
9:04 p.m.
On Thursday 25 June 2009 14:46:10 Thomas Doerfler wrote:
which operating systems, that get typically booted using U-Boot are already under GPL3?
I know that the license of the Boot Loader has nothing to do with the license of the booted software, what is the "political benefit" to put the boot loader under GPLv3, when the major OS of the software (e.g. linux) are under GPLv2?
typically the operating systems that u-boot would load are in the opposite licensing direction, i.e. BSD or commercial variants none of which require releasing any real details let alone restrict usage. i'm not aware of any OS that is under the GPL-3. ironically, it seems even GNU/Hurd is GPL-2. -mike