Hello, all. I'm currently importing gPXE into grub-extras to allow a tighter interraction and integration. I would like to discuss collaboration between our two projects. GRUB2 is under GPLv3+ and gPXE is mostly GPLv2+-compatible. I will keep the original licences on all imported files this way improvements made to files originating from gPXE can find their way back. I see 3 collaboration models: 1) I import all files we need and which are under compatible licence. We keep licences, notify you about improvements which may be worth incorporating into gPXE 2) I write a python script which does automatic importing and adds few GRUB-specific patches. This way syncronisation is easier. Patches which aren't GRUB-specific would be redirected to gPXE 3) Add a secondary target to gPXE to produce series of GRUB modules. Due to big differences between build systems this may be problematic and result in frequent breakage
Of course any GPLv2-only file is excluded from this collaboration. Currently I haven't finished importing so don't know which files may pose problem and that I'll have to rewrite or import from a different source. Currently I have following problems: 1) Some files like netl/mii.c are labeled as GPL without explicit version 2) Some files like net/ftp.c, net/icmpv6.c, net/ipv6.c, net/ndp.c and include/gpxe/ndp.h Would it be possible to clarify their legal status, if possible opt for GPLv2+ or 2-clause BSDL 3) include/gpxe/list.h is under GPLv2-only. I already created a workalike for it from scratch so it's not very important but would still be nice if we could share this code one way or another. 4) A lot of drivers are GPLv2-only. Would it be possible to relicence them as GPLv2+ ? Technical comments are welcome too. Currently I imported directories net and include/gpxe omitting files under unclear licence or GPLv2-only as well as files core/base64.c, core/uri.c and core/uuid.c. The whole still has 94 unresolved symbols and I'll work on fixing it. Thanks in advance Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
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