From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1FIZ0n-0007sj-CJ for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:26:05 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FIZ0m-0007rY-7I for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:26:04 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FIZ0k-0007pH-Gd for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:26:03 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FIZ0k-0007p2-DW for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:26:02 -0500 Received: from [212.85.152.101] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FIZ4Z-0006sZ-RT for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:30:00 -0500 Received: from kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com (kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com [212.85.152.101]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B5143C006287 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 00:25:53 +0100 (CET) Received: from [??1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5EAC3C00622C for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 00:25:52 +0100 (CET) From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:25:58 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <44100C67.6000402@itwm.fraunhofer.de> <44129290.3000204@nic.fi> <87bqwdujo7.fsf@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <87bqwdujo7.fsf@xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603122225.58177.okuji@enbug.org> X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.317922, version=0.17.2 Subject: Re: Status of UNDI Support 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: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:26:04 -0000 On Saturday 11 March 2006 14:42, Marco Gerards wrote: > NDIS drivers are non-free software. We can't and will not support > this. It can't even be done unofficially, in that case it will be a > license violation, AFAIK. =46rom purely legal point of view, this is in a gray zone. For example, if = you=20 compile GPL code on a proprietary C library, is this illegal? Note that BIO= S=20 and Open Firmware are not Free Software usually, but we still use them. > And besides that, using non-free software is just not the right thing > to do. I agree. Okuji