From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Mrqpn-0006Hz-Ku for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:18:27 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mrqpe-0006GD-3F for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:18:18 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MrqpY-0006Es-Lb for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:18:17 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60589 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MrqpX-0006Ea-3U for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:18:11 -0400 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:32944 helo=aybabtu.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MrqpW-0002Q7-P7 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:18:10 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MrqpR-0000Pc-Jq; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:18:05 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MrqpQ-0005uJ-GA; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:18:04 +0200 Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:18:04 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090927101804.GA22642@thorin> References: <4ABBC1F5.70808@redhat.com> <20090924202146.GA16412@thorin> <20090924223810.GA2638@brong.net> <20090925140951.GA6318@thorin> <20090925150136.GQ13423@riva.ucam.org> <6149e97b0909262029w30fe3adcq591515f0f2b156c4@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6149e97b0909262029w30fe3adcq591515f0f2b156c4@mail.gmail.com> 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/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Cc: Chris Mason , Bron Gondwana , Ric Wheeler , The development of BTRFS , Colin Watson Subject: Re: grub-0.97: btrfs multidevice support [PATCH] 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: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:18:19 -0000 On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:29:11AM +0800, Peng Tao wrote: > > > > It would be great if somebody could take up Edward's work and port it to > > GRUB 2. If nobody else does then I'd be interested in doing so myself, > > although I will not be able to start for a month or two from now. > Is there any guild lines for porting GPLv2 code to GRUB2? I've looked > at the GRUB2 wiki but very few things are documented there > (http://grub.enbug.org/). I'd like to see what it would take to port > the patches. If I can afford it, I'd like to try. I assume you mean GPLv2-only code (as opposed to GPLv2-or-later). First step would be to contact the copyright holders and ask them to relicense under v3-compatible terms (e.g. GPLv2-or-later). Chances are they didn't chose these terms as an act of hostility, but were simply being zealous about allowing something before they knew what it is. If that doesn't work, we'll always have Par^W clean room (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design). -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Millan Subject: Re: grub-0.97: btrfs multidevice support [PATCH] Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:18:04 +0200 Message-ID: <20090927101804.GA22642@thorin> References: <4ABBC1F5.70808@redhat.com> <20090924202146.GA16412@thorin> <20090924223810.GA2638@brong.net> <20090925140951.GA6318@thorin> <20090925150136.GQ13423@riva.ucam.org> <6149e97b0909262029w30fe3adcq591515f0f2b156c4@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Colin Watson , Bron Gondwana , Ric Wheeler , The development of BTRFS , Chris Mason To: The development of GRUB 2 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <6149e97b0909262029w30fe3adcq591515f0f2b156c4@mail.gmail.com> List-ID: On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:29:11AM +0800, Peng Tao wrote: > > > > It would be great if somebody could take up Edward's work and port it to > > GRUB 2. If nobody else does then I'd be interested in doing so myself, > > although I will not be able to start for a month or two from now. > Is there any guild lines for porting GPLv2 code to GRUB2? I've looked > at the GRUB2 wiki but very few things are documented there > (http://grub.enbug.org/). I'd like to see what it would take to port > the patches. If I can afford it, I'd like to try. I assume you mean GPLv2-only code (as opposed to GPLv2-or-later). First step would be to contact the copyright holders and ask them to relicense under v3-compatible terms (e.g. GPLv2-or-later). Chances are they didn't chose these terms as an act of hostility, but were simply being zealous about allowing something before they knew what it is. If that doesn't work, we'll always have Par^W clean room (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design). -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."