From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Detlev Zundel Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:12:01 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] U-book and GPLv3? (fwd) In-Reply-To: <200906231541.54291.vapier@gentoo.org> (Mike Frysinger's message of "Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:41:52 -0400") References: <20090618145128.69F27832E416@gemini.denx.de> <20090623192634.GB23560@b07421-ec1.am.freescale.net> <200906231541.54291.vapier@gentoo.org> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi Mike, > On Tuesday 23 June 2009 15:26:35 Scott Wood wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 06:33:53PM +0200, Detlev Zundel wrote: >> > 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. >> >> Regardless of what motivates it, people who sell hardware to such >> customers (and who also contribute to u-boot) may not want to risk losing >> that business by pushing GPLv3 on them. > > indeed. expecting businesses to push other peoples' agenda isnt realistic, > especially when the conversation is pretty much a net customer loss for said > businesses. It seems so clear for you, but it isn't for me - where is this net loss for them, what exactly do they loose? > customers arent going to appear because your business is now pushing > GPLv3 instead of GPLv2, but they will certainly disappear. Why will they disappear? Cheers Detlev -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-40 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: dzu at denx.de