[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 4/5] usb/gadget: fastboot: add sparse image definitions

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Thu Aug 7 23:10:04 CEST 2014


Dear Jeroen,

In message <53E3E974.1020504 at myspectrum.nl> you wrote:
> 
> On 07-08-14 22:59, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > <snip>
> >> So the argument about incompatible licenses is valid here. Should
> >> u-boot switch to GPLv3 you need to hunt down that file again and this
> > You would have to rewrite the major part of U-Boot or to cripple it
> noise ^ not
> > to uselessness if you try to release it under GPLv3. I cannot see
> > anybody investing any efforts in that direction; all these threads
> > about a potential GPLv3 switch are just a hollow scarecrow.

sorry, can't parse that.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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