Re: [RFC] multiboot2 loader

2006-11-29 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
At Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:25:49 +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > But now it might be better to change my mind, since even _you_ misunderstand > it. If you don't get it, how many people would understand? If you consider it a separate project, it's probably better to make it a real separate proje

Re: [RFC] multiboot2 loader

2006-11-28 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 11:59, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:08:46AM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > On Sunday 26 November 2006 11:18, Tomáš Ebenlendr wrote: > > > What about having > > > "Multiboot's" header as a part of "Multiboot project". > > > > Multiboot Specific

Re: [RFC] multiboot2 loader

2006-11-28 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 11:59, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > You completely miss the point that we want to have header files and > example code that can be used by other projects to implement > multiboot. *sigh* Sleep well, and reconsider what I have said. Okuji __

Re: [RFC] multiboot2 loader

2006-11-28 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:08:46AM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Sunday 26 November 2006 11:18, Tomáš Ebenlendr wrote: > > What about having > > "Multiboot's" header as a part of "Multiboot project". > > Multiboot Specification is not a part of GRUB in any sense. It is discussed > in >

Re: [RFC] multiboot2 loader

2006-11-28 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:11:37AM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Sunday 26 November 2006 23:50, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > Nothing prevents you from writing a C library - the POSIX and C > > standards are available independently. Yet the C library is under > > LGPL. Also nothing prevents you

Re: [RFC] multiboot2 loader

2006-11-27 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Sunday 26 November 2006 23:50, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > Nothing prevents you from writing a C library - the POSIX and C > standards are available independently. Yet the C library is under > LGPL. Also nothing prevents you from writing an ogg vorbis > implementation, but the FSF advocated the BSD

Re: [RFC] multiboot2 loader

2006-11-27 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Sunday 26 November 2006 11:18, Tomáš Ebenlendr wrote: > And should the multiboot header file be "Grub's"? If the header is written for GRUB, yes. If it has no relationship with GRUB, no. That's very simple. > What about having > "Multiboot's" header as a part of "Multiboot project". Multib

Re: [RFC] multiboot2 loader

2006-11-26 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
At Sat, 25 Nov 2006 03:56:50 +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > On Wednesday 15 November 2006 23:48, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > > > An exception is exactly what I am proposing. What is your objection? > > > > > > The GNU Project endorses the use of GPL to promote freedom. Don't forget > > > tha

Re: [RFC] multiboot2 loader

2006-11-26 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 11:18 +0100, Tomáš Ebenlendr wrote: > > >> There is plenty of precedent here. So I still see nothing wrong > with > >> putting a header file, which describes an interface, under a > non-GPL > >> license. > > > > Because GRUB is not a library. The spec is available independent

Re: [RFC] multiboot2 loader

2006-11-26 Thread Tomáš Ebenlendr
>> There is plenty of precedent here. So I still see nothing wrong with >> putting a header file, which describes an interface, under a non-GPL >> license. > > Because GRUB is not a library. The spec is available independently, so > you can write your own header easily. Nothing prevents you from d

Re: [RFC] multiboot2 loader

2006-11-24 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 23:48, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > > An exception is exactly what I am proposing. What is your objection? > > > > The GNU Project endorses the use of GPL to promote freedom. Don't forget > > that GRUB is a part of GNU. > > The GNU project also includes GCC, which is us

Re: [RFC] multiboot2 loader

2006-11-15 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 00:15 +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Wednesday 15 November 2006 22:10, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 22:33 +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > > On Tuesday 14 November 2006 02:16, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > > > I've placed a generic multiboot.h dir

Re: [RFC] multiboot2 loader

2006-11-15 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 22:10, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 22:33 +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > On Tuesday 14 November 2006 02:16, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > > I've placed a generic multiboot.h directly into include/ (not in the > > > grub subdirectory), since it it

Re: [RFC] multiboot2 loader

2006-11-15 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 22:33 +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Tuesday 14 November 2006 02:16, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > I've placed a generic multiboot.h directly into include/ (not in the > > grub subdirectory), since it it suitable for using in kernels > > independently of GRUB. As for the

Re: [RFC] multiboot2 loader

2006-11-15 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Tuesday 14 November 2006 02:16, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > I've placed a generic multiboot.h directly into include/ (not in the > grub subdirectory), since it it suitable for using in kernels > independently of GRUB. As for the license, I believe that > include/multiboot.h should NOT be GPL, to a