[U-Boot] U-book and GPLv3? (fwd)

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 23 June 2009 15:26:35 Scott Wood wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 06:33:53PM +0200, Detlev Zundel wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Regardless of what motivates it, people who sell hardware to such
> customers (and who also contribute to u-boot) may not want to risk losing
> that business by pushing GPLv3 on them.

indeed.  expecting businesses to push other peoples' agenda isnt realistic, 
especially when the conversation is pretty much a net customer loss for said 
businesses.  customers arent going to appear because your business is now 
pushing GPLv3 instead of GPLv2, but they will certainly disappear.
-mike
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 836 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
Url : http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/attachments/20090623/1873a5a7/attachment.pgp