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

[Grant Likely]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Detlev Zundel<dzu at 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.

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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.