[U-Boot] U-book and GPLv3?

[Kumar Gala]

On Jul 9, 2009, at 12:54 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> On Thursday 09 July 2009 12:10:48 Kumar Gala wrote:
>> I ask because its my understanding from internal Freescale  
>> discussions
>> (from the PPC group) that its Freescale's preference to stick with
>> GPLv2.  What Freescale will decide to do if the decision is to move  
>> to
>> GPLv3 is not clear at this point.
>
> Freescale isnt alone here, so when/if u-boot goes GPLv3, please dont  
> do your
> own thing in a vacuum.  there will be others who would support a  
> GPLv2 split,
> so we might as well collaborate.  u-boot-v2 looks fairly attractive  
> at this
> point.

My personal opinion (not necessarily Freescale's) is that working on a  
community boot loader is beneficial and doing something in a vacuum is  
a bad idea.

- k