On Wednesday 15 November 2006 23:48, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > > An exception is exactly what I am proposing. What is your objection? > > > > The GNU Project endorses the use of GPL to promote freedom. Don't forget > > that GRUB is a part of GNU. > > The GNU project also includes GCC, which is used to build non-Free > software. In fact GCC even contains libgcc, which is *linked* with > non-free software.
GCC is a project to be used as a tool to make another program. GRUB is not. > The GNU project also includes glibc, which is linked with (almost?) all > non-Free software on Linux. GNU Libc is a project to be used as a library to make another program. GRUB is not. > The GNU project also uses the LGPL license, which allows all sorts of > Free software to be used with non-Free software. We have never been in favour of LGPL. LGPL is just a workaround, and should not be used whenever possible. > GRUB itself is used to boot non-Free operating systems. This is a different story. One may use, say, GNU Emacs to make proprietary software. But this does not require that GNU Emacs be non-copyleft. > There is plenty of precedent here. So I still see nothing wrong with > putting a header file, which describes an interface, under a non-GPL > license. Because GRUB is not a library. The spec is available independently, so you can write your own header easily. Nothing prevents you from doing this. Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
