From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1K97WM-0003O8-3c for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:56:58 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K97WK-0003No-Sp for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:56:56 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K97WJ-0003NG-7X for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:56:55 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53586 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K97WJ-0003NA-23 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:56:55 -0400 Received: from c60.cesmail.net ([216.154.195.49]:54698) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K97WI-0005q9-JI for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:56:54 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO relay.cesmail.net) ([192.168.1.81]) by c60.cesmail.net with ESMTP; 18 Jun 2008 19:56:53 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.101] (static-72-92-88-10.phlapa.fios.verizon.net [72.92.88.10]) by relay.cesmail.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C997619058 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:56:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Pavel Roskin To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <20080618221502.GA24751@thorin> References: <20080616091535.GA17206@thorin> <20080617123348.GC12117@thorin> <20080617125423.GA13883@thorin> <200806181952.27260.okuji@enbug.org> <20080618221502.GA24751@thorin> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:56:52 -0400 Message-Id: <1213833412.5258.5.camel@dv> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2 (2.22.2-2.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: [RFC] split floppy support off biosdisk X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:56:57 -0000 On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 00:15 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > Which implementation of LZMA do you refer to? I think LZMA SDK is available > > under LGPL, and most of LZMA Utils is also under LGPL. So there should be no > > problem. > > I expected that LGPL 2.1 wouldn't be compatible with GPL 3, but it seems > that it is; so unless I missed something there's no problem at all. It would be fine if we were just linking against lzma. In this case, software using GPLv3 would have at least the same rights as proprietary software that is allowed to do that. But we are going to incorporate the decompression function into the bootloader, and that may not be allowed by LGPL. I don't think it would be allowed for proprietary software. It would be a derived work regardless of the library exceptions. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin