[U-Boot] GPL v3 only code in U-Boot

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Dirk Behme,

In message <51D3ED44.8080301 at de.bosch.com> you wrote:
> 
> hopefully ;) a short question: We found that the commit
> 
> http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commitdiff;h=3c945542dad99b1ec4a324ad6b69b8de8829827b
> 
> contains two files
> 
> board/qi/qi_lb60/qi_lb60.c
> include/configs/qi_lb60.h
> 
> which seem to be GPL v3 *only*.

Actually it's GPL-3.0+: "version 3 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version".

> Is this ok for U-Boot?

No, as GPLv3 is not compatible with GPLv2 / GPLv2+ which is used in
U-Boot.  This needs to be fixed.  Thanks for pointing out.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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