Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:41 AM, Felix Zielcke <fziel...@z-51.de> wrote: > >> Am Dienstag, den 10.11.2009, 19:38 -0800 schrieb Roman Shaposhnik: >> >>> Browsing the archives of grub-devel reveals that Lua support was moved to >>> grub-extras which makes me ask these two questions: >>> 1. Was the decision to move Lua based exclusively on the licensing >>> concerns? >>> >> I don't think it was exclusively only decided because of the license, >> but this is the top reason for it. >> > > I'd appreciated knowing non-licensing reasons as well. > The only other reason was to encourage developpement of sh-like scripting. > On the licensing front, though, what was an actual issue there? > After all, Lua has a respectable FOSS license and I'm sure there's tons of > MIT-licensed software in Debian. What made Lua different? > GNU isn't Debian. GNU has a very strong copyright policy and for code to become GNU it usually has to be copyright-assigned to FSF. It's not the case of LUA. So we created grub-extras specifically to hold code which is perfectly legal, free and GPLv3-compatible but not suitable for GNU. Any distribution which doesn't have anything against code not being copyrighted by FSF shouldn't have any reason not to add grub-extras
-- Regards Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
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