Re: GPL version 3

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 01:38:30AM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> On Saturday 14 July 2007 15:02, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> > Thank you for your replies. As my time is limited, I don't reply to
> > individual messages, but I have read all of them. In my understanding, all
> > long-term contributors have agreed (or not replied) for GPLv3, so, as an
> > official representative of the GNU project, I conclude that we should
> > migrate to GPLv3.
> >
> > So GRUB 2 will be licensed under GPLv3. I keep GRUB Legacy as it is under
> > GPLv2. (Anyway, I am not planning to release any new version of GRUB
> > Legacy.)
> 
> So I have modified all the copyright notices, and now GRUB 2 is under GPLv3. I 
> will make a new release in next weekend, if everything looks good.

I don't think we're ready.  There are serious outstanding issues on LVM and
powerpc-ieee1275 systems (including Macs).  See the previous threads for
details.

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