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Subject: Re: GPLv3

Re: GPLv3

From: Nils Wallménius <nils.wallmenius_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:41:38 +0200

On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Rafaël Carré <rafael.carre_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> AFAIK the only thing which would prevent us from using GPLv3 code is
> the presence of GPLv2-only code in rockbox, and there has been some
> effort made to ensure there's none.
>
> --
> Rafaël Carré
>

There is in fact at least one file, firmware/libc/strstr.c which comes
from linux which is gplv2-only. Maybe we should replace that with a
more liberally licenced one?

Nils
Received on 2010-07-11

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