On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Detlev Zundel<d...@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. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot