From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JIOdQ-0004vD-Mo for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:30:20 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JIOdP-0004uL-AY for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:30:19 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JIOdN-0004t6-Hv for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:30:18 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JIOdN-0004sp-9e for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:30:17 -0500 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 1JIOdN-0006WW-49 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:30:17 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JIObD-0001mS-OS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:28:07 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JIOYV-0001NL-Pr for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:25:15 +0100 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:25:15 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080125132515.GA5196@thorin> References: <4794EC4B.8080301@prolly.org> <200801240949.22350.okuji@enbug.org> <20080124124205.GH2249@thorin> <200801242210.14814.okuji@enbug.org> <87bq7al1pa.fsf@xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <87bq7al1pa.fsf@xs4all.nl> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: netboot/UNDI status 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: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:30:19 -0000 On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:00:17AM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: > "Yoshinori K. Okuji" writes: > > > On Thursday 24 January 2008 13:42, Robert Millan wrote: > >> Well, if we can collaborate by sharing the same driver collection that's > >> even better, of course. This was done for GRUB Legacy, right? > > > > Sure. I had a very short conversation with gpxe developers last year, and we > > have agreed that we should share work. In GRUB Legacy, we tried to keep > > etherboot drivers as intact as possible, and we contributed back by providing > > bug fixes. IMO, this should be continued in GRUB 2 as well. > > Please correct me if I am wrong, but aren't some files licensed under > the GPL, with an additional demand that you shouldn't use it outside > etherboot? Just one driver is known to do that. Check our BTS. Besides, it might even be illegal to distribute those drivers, even as part of etherboot. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)