From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1I7FXh-00070d-7N for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2007 15:02:05 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I7FXe-0006zq-U7 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2007 15:02:02 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I7FXd-0006yf-CJ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2007 15:02:02 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I7FXd-0006ya-20 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2007 15:02:01 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I7FXc-00006s-Ez for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2007 15:02:00 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=aragorn) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1I7FXZ-000679-Qx for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2007 21:01:59 +0200 Received: from rmh by aragorn with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1I7FZI-0004qx-T6 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2007 21:03:44 +0200 Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 21:03:44 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20070707190344.GC18381@aragorn> References: <200707042140.15118.okuji@enbug.org> <87bqerkh8x.wl@dekkers.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87bqerkh8x.wl@dekkers.cx> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Microsoft discourages use of Outlook. X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: GPL version 3 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: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 19:02:03 -0000 On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 11:10:06PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > At Wed, 4 Jul 2007 21:40:15 +0200, > Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > So I bet that GRUB Legacy should remain under GPLv2. But this can cause some > > problem potentially. Let's say, we find the same bug both in GRUB Legacy and > > in GRUB 2. In the current trend, the bug would be fixed in GRUB 2 sooner. But > > this fix may not be backported to GRUB Legacy as it is, once GRUB 2 migrates > > to GPLv3, because of the license incompatibility. Thus this means that the > > maintenance of GRUB Legacy would be harder. > > Are you sure about this? Given that we've assigned copyright to the > FSF, the FSF can decide under which free software license to license > that code. So I don't really see why we can't release the same code > under GPLv2 or later in GRUB Legacy and under GPLv3 or later in GRUB2. This also defeats the point of making GRUB 2 GPLv3, since when we backport it to GRUB Legacy we're licensing this feature in GPLv2, and then it's no longer protected against Treacherous Computing, etc. -- Robert Millan My spam trap is honeypot@aybabtu.com. Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list.