From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1K95wF-0003hW-GS for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:15:35 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K95wE-0003hO-65 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:15:34 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K95wC-0003hA-LT for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:15:33 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56808 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K95wC-0003h7-Eb for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:15:32 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:37612) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K95wC-0006c8-3X for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:15:32 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1K95tl-0001zb-83 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:13:01 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1K95vi-0006Rq-3T for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:15:02 +0200 Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:15:02 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080618221502.GA24751@thorin> References: <20080616091535.GA17206@thorin> <20080617123348.GC12117@thorin> <20080617125423.GA13883@thorin> <200806181952.27260.okuji@enbug.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200806181952.27260.okuji@enbug.org> 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: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:15:34 -0000 On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 07:52:26PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Tuesday 17 June 2008 14:54:23 Robert Millan wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 02:33:48PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > 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. > > > > CCing him. > > Which implementation of LZMA do you refer to? I think LZMA SDK is available > under LGPL, and most of LZMA Utils is also under LGPL. So there should be no > problem. I expected that LGPL 2.1 wouldn't be compatible with GPL 3, but it seems that it is; so unless I missed something there's no problem at all. -- 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 /.)