From: Jeroen Dekkers <jeroen@vrijschrift.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GPL version 3
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:10:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bqerkh8x.wl@dekkers.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200707042140.15118.okuji@enbug.org>
At Wed, 4 Jul 2007 21:40:15 +0200,
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> So I bet that GRUB Legacy should remain under GPLv2. But this can cause some
> problem potentially. Let's say, we find the same bug both in GRUB Legacy and
> in GRUB 2. In the current trend, the bug would be fixed in GRUB 2 sooner. But
> this fix may not be backported to GRUB Legacy as it is, once GRUB 2 migrates
> to GPLv3, because of the license incompatibility. Thus this means that the
> maintenance of GRUB Legacy would be harder.
Are you sure about this? Given that we've assigned copyright to the
FSF, the FSF can decide under which free software license to license
that code. So I don't really see why we can't release the same code
under GPLv2 or later in GRUB Legacy and under GPLv3 or later in GRUB2.
On the other hand, there have been 4 changelog entries for GRUB Legacy
in the past year, so we shouldn't really make a big deal out of
this. So IMO we should just go for GPLv3.
Jeroen Dekkers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-04 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-04 19:40 GPL version 3 Yoshinori K. Okuji
2007-07-04 20:23 ` Alex Roman
2007-07-04 21:09 ` Thomas Schwinge
2007-07-04 21:10 ` Jeroen Dekkers [this message]
2007-07-04 22:58 ` Stefan Reinauer
2007-07-07 19:01 ` Robert Millan
2007-07-04 23:06 ` Stefan Reinauer
2007-07-04 23:34 ` Jeroen Dekkers
2007-07-07 19:03 ` Robert Millan
2007-07-04 21:53 ` Jerone Young
2007-07-04 22:53 ` Stefan Reinauer
2007-07-05 5:47 ` Marco Gerards
2007-07-07 19:06 ` Robert Millan
2007-07-08 16:10 ` Robert Millan
2007-07-14 13:02 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2007-07-21 23:38 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2007-07-22 0:35 ` Alex Roman
2007-07-22 13:45 ` Marco Gerards
2007-07-22 8:04 ` Robert Millan
2007-07-22 13:56 ` Thomas Schwinge
2007-07-22 14:43 ` grub 1.96 (Re: GPL version 3) Robert Millan
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