On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 03:56:53PM +0200, Michael Gorven wrote: > Hi > > I am currently adding support for LUKS encrypted partitions to GRUB2. > Although > I'm far from finished, there are a few issues I'd like to address. > > 1. I am using the crypto patch submitted by Simon Peter[1][2]. Are there any > plans to integrate this patch, or should I resubmit it as part of my patch?
I don't think it can be merged untill the legal issues are resolved. Additionally, the maintainers (Marco and Okuji) might require paperwork, a step at which we didn't get because of the (more problematic) GPL-incompatible terms in license. > 2. If I am to submit Simon's patch, what remaining issues are there with it? > If there is a problem with the license of the ciphers I can replace them with > suitable implementations. In particular, rmd160.c was problematic: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-09/msg00005.html > 3. What licenses are suitable for integration with GRUB? Most of the ciphers > I > need are available in libgcrypt[3], which is copyrighted by the FSF and under > LGPL 2.1. I am currently using some other code which is under GPL 2 > however -- what is the situation with that? FSF-copyrighted code is always ok. As for GPL 2 code, if it's not "2 or later" it can't be legally recombined with GPL 3 code (aside from the constraints about paperwork, see above). Hope that helps, -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
