On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:11:37AM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Sunday 26 November 2006 23:50, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > Nothing prevents you from writing a C library - the POSIX and C > > standards are available independently. Yet the C library is under > > LGPL. Also nothing prevents you from writing an ogg vorbis > > implementation, but the FSF advocated the BSD license for ogg vorbis > > however. > > > > What RMS said is that the GPL isn't an end itself. I agree with that, > > and I think the BSD license is more suitable for the multiboot header > > files and/or multiboot example kernel than the GPL. > > You are right at the point that we adopt weaker licenses by compromise from > time to time. But you completely miss the point that code in GRUB is not > meant to be used for other projects. So we have no reason to compromise in > GRUB.
You completely miss the point that we want to have header files and example code that can be used by other projects to implement multiboot. Jeroen Dekkers _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
