From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Samuel Thibault Subject: Re: Grub2 on Xen PV Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 00:22:43 +0200 Message-ID: <20090518222243.GQ7109@const.dartybox.com> References: <87my9e8ldu.fsf@tac.ki.iif.hu> <87octu6tnk.fsf@tac.ki.iif.hu> <87my9e8ldu.fsf@tac.ki.iif.hu> <87eiuq8k91.fsf@tac.ki.iif.hu> <87my9e8ldu.fsf@tac.ki.iif.hu> <20090516214229.GA5445@const.famille.thibault.fr> <87r5ym5a7o.fsf@tac.ki.iif.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87r5ym5a7o.fsf@tac.ki.iif.hu> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Ferenc Wagner Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Ferenc Wagner, le Tue 19 May 2009 00:15:39 +0200, a =E9crit : > Samuel Thibault writes: >=20 > > Ferenc Wagner, le Fri 15 May 2009 16:57:01 +0200, a =E9crit : > > > >> I contacted the Grub people, and they seem more interested in > >> creating a native Xen port of Grub than piggybacking the Mini-OS > >> environment > > > > We actually had discussed a bit about that at XenSource. If they hav= e > > the will to maintain it then it's all the best I guess. >=20 > I wonder if that approach would turn out much different in the end... >=20 > > They can reuse my kexec code. >=20 > Only if you relicense it. If you're still subscribed to grub-devel, > you already know this but if not: Grub is GPLv3+, Xen is GPLv2, so > they can't use Xen code. Parts of MiniOS are licensed differently, > but it's still too swampy to work with, as it looks. :( Ah, damn licences issues. For the kexec code, XenSource can decide to relicence it under GPLv3+, as it was all written by me while I was working there. For MiniOS that can't be done as there have been many contributions from many parts. Samuel