Peng Tao wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Robert Millan <r...@aybabtu.com> wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:29:11AM +0800, Peng Tao wrote: >> >>>> It would be great if somebody could take up Edward's work and port it to >>>> GRUB 2. If nobody else does then I'd be interested in doing so myself, >>>> although I will not be able to start for a month or two from now. >>>> >>> Is there any guild lines for porting GPLv2 code to GRUB2? I've looked >>> at the GRUB2 wiki but very few things are documented there >>> (http://grub.enbug.org/). I'd like to see what it would take to port >>> the patches. If I can afford it, I'd like to try. >>> >> I assume you mean GPLv2-only code (as opposed to GPLv2-or-later). First >> step would be to contact the copyright holders and ask them to relicense >> under v3-compatible terms (e.g. GPLv2-or-later). Chances are they didn't >> chose these terms as an act of hostility, but were simply being zealous >> about allowing something before they knew what it is. >> >> If that doesn't work, we'll always have Par^W clean room >> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design). >> > Edward's patch (stage2/fsys_btrfs.c) is declared GPLv2-or-later. But > stage2/btrfs.h (which is extracted from btrfs-progs) is GPLv2-only. At > the point, we only need a clean room for btrfs.h, right? > Doing any clean room is needed only if other ways fail. And I hope Oracle and btrfs contributors could agree to license under GPLv3-compatible terms > And I'm not sure what a clean room design in GRUB2 looks like. Is > there an example? > >> -- >> 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 >> >> > > > >
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