On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:51:04AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > Quoting Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org>: > >> (sorry phcoder for the duplication) >> >> Robert Millan, le Fri 10 Jul 2009 19:22:48 +0200, a écrit : >>> We've made some exceptions, but in general, we'd like to keep the GRUB >>> codebase made entirely of FSF-copyrighted code, or at least code we >>> have disclaimers for. >>> >>> OTOH, we don't want to discard valuable work that wasn't written >>> specifically >>> for GRUB. Perhaps Marco or Okuji will allow an exception for this case. >> >> The thing is that it would be sad to re-implement these drivers, as >> getting hardware to make sure they work is hard. > > One of the main advantages of Free Software is that it allows code > sharing. For a GNU project to reject accessibility code solely because > it's copyrighted by others would be a very bad move from the PR > perspective.
Hi, We're not going to reject that code, or duplicate their work. I discussed this with Marco two days ago. He approves of the grub-extras project, and thinks we can make this the recommended approach for situations in which we want to import code that wasn't written specifically for GRUB. Had I known about his position, I'd have proposed that some things like LUA be put there. Anyhow, I look forward to more stuff being added to it. grub-extras is integrated with the Debian package, so additions there are merged with it semi-automatically. I won't allow, however, grub-extras to be used as an excuse to avoid paperwork for code specifically written for GRUB. We've had some bad experience with uncooperative developers who refused even signing a disclaimer (which essentially said they wrote the code themselves without infringing someone else's copyright). -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
