[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 07/10] tegra20: add SPL config options for seaboard

[Stephen Warren]

On 06/07/2012 11:04 AM, Sughosh Ganu wrote:
> On Thu Jun 07, 2012 at 10:36:53AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> On 06/07/2012 01:15 AM, Sughosh Ganu wrote:
>>> On Wed Jun 06, 2012 at 10:44:59AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
>>>> On 06/05/2012 03:20 PM, Allen Martin wrote:
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/include/configs/tegra2-spl.h b/include/configs/tegra2-spl.h
>>>>
>>>>> + * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
>>>>> + * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
>>>>
>>>> Being a new file, this should be GPLv2 not GPLv2+.
>>>
>>>   u-boot uses GPLv2+.
>>>
>>> http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/U-Boot/Patches#Attributing_Code_Copyrights_Sign
>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg26569.html
>>
>> Sughosh,
>>
>> I guess I'm a little confused here.
>>
>> COPYING in the U-Boot source tree states the following:
>>
>>>   U-Boot is Free Software.  It is copyrighted by Wolfgang Denk and
>>> many others who contributed code (see the actual source code for
>>> details).  You can redistribute U-Boot and/or modify it under the
>>> terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as published by
>>> the Free Software Foundation.  Most of it can also be distributed,
>>> at your option, under any later version of the GNU General Public
>>> License -- see individual files for exceptions.
>>
>> ... which explicitly allows for either GPLv2 or GPLv2+ code. There is
>> certainly GPLv2-only code already in U-Boot. Why do you say that
>> GPLv2-only code isn't allowed?
> 
>   I guess that could be because some of the existing files in u-boot
>   are released under GPLv2 only license -- hence a separate mention
>   that most of the files can be distributed under any later version
>   too . Both Wolfgang and Detlev have stated many a times on the
>   mailing list earlier that all new files need to be released under
>   GPLv2+, and not GPLv2 only.

Hmmm. It seems like a good idea for COPYING to be updated to be explicit
re: why that exemption is there, to avoid future confusion.

I assume the requirement for GPLv2+ only applies to new code written for
U-Boot, not existing code that's being taken from or derived from some
other GPLv2-only project?