On Thursday 19 June 2008 01:56:52 Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 00:15 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > Which implementation of LZMA do you refer to? I think LZMA SDK is > > > available under LGPL, and most of LZMA Utils is also under LGPL. So > > > there should be no problem. > > > > I expected that LGPL 2.1 wouldn't be compatible with GPL 3, but it seems > > that it is; so unless I missed something there's no problem at all. > > It would be fine if we were just linking against lzma. In this case, > software using GPLv3 would have at least the same rights as proprietary > software that is allowed to do that. > > But we are going to incorporate the decompression function into the > bootloader, and that may not be allowed by LGPL. I don't think it would > be allowed for proprietary software. It would be a derived work > regardless of the library exceptions.
I took a look at lzma 4.32.6. All code in liblzmadec is licensed with LGPL 2.1 or any later version. So where is the problem? Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
