[LinuxBIOS] romcc manpage.

[Uwe Hermann]

On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 12:04:14AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > What are people here thinking about GPL versions? Do you explicitly want
> > LinuxBIOS to be GPL v2? If so, why? I personally usually use "GPL v2 or
> > later", which will prevent hassle when GPL v3 will be here (and judging
> > from what I've read about GPL v3, that'll be fine with me, too).
> 
> In part we are derived from the Linux kernel, and that is v2 only.
> And big chunks of LinuxBIOS are v2 only for the same reason.
> 
> The License file proved is v2 of the License and not every contributor
> has been willing for v2 or later.

OK, that makes it very unlikely that we'll have a fully "GPL v2 or later"
LinuxBIOS (as a whole), so it's GPL v2 and will remain that way.


Cheers, Uwe.
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