From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1I6C7J-0003CP-Qd for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:10:29 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I6C7H-0003BS-Mz for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:10:27 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I6C7F-00039y-Qh for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:10:26 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I6C7F-00039q-K3 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:10:25 -0400 Received: from neonescio.viaisn.org ([82.94.249.43]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I6C7F-000427-6F for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:10:25 -0400 Received: from dijkstra.dekkers.cx ([2001:960:7a0:0:213:d4ff:fe9c:2487] ident=Debian-exim) by neonescio.viaisn.org with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32 CV=0) (Exim 4.63 #1) id 1I6C6w-0006xL-Re for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:10:06 +0200 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=dijkstra.dekkers.cx ident=jeroen) by dijkstra.dekkers.cx with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I6C6w-0006Bo-9I for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:10:06 +0200 Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:10:06 +0200 Message-ID: <87bqerkh8x.wl@dekkers.cx> From: Jeroen Dekkers To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <200707042140.15118.okuji@enbug.org> References: <200707042140.15118.okuji@enbug.org> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.8 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Shij=F2?=) APEL/10.7 Emacs/22.0.95 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: GPL version 3 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, 04 Jul 2007 21:10:28 -0000 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