From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1K8aOD-0000z6-MB for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:34:21 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K8aOB-0000xR-BJ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:34:19 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K8aO9-0000wB-OR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:34:18 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46713 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K8aO9-0000vv-HI for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:34:17 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:58201) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K8aO9-0004fA-4O for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:34:17 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1K8aLs-0004OD-2G for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:31:56 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1K8aNg-0003RY-Os for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:33:48 +0200 Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:33:48 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080617123348.GC12117@thorin> References: <20080616091535.GA17206@thorin> <1213615227.6330.3.camel@localhost> <1213618146.6330.6.camel@localhost> <20080616213116.GC6108@thorin> <20080617122215.GB12117@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20080617122215.GB12117@thorin> 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: [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: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:34:19 -0000 On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 02:22:15PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > A problem I see here is that LZMA is licensed under GPLv2-only, so it'd > probably take a rewrite of the decompressor for us to use it, or ask the > author to make it "or later". > > By the looks (no explicit license header in individual files) I doubt it > was an explicit decision to exclude GPLv3. I'll try contact him. Actually, after checking: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility it seems there's no problem. But I'd like to see what Okuji thinks about it. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)