From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1DpQor-00068e-JO for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2005 09:17:05 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DpQoo-00067q-IO for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2005 09:17:02 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DpQoj-00065F-Ei for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2005 09:17:01 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DpQoj-000655-AD for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2005 09:16:57 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DpQsq-0004ef-J0 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2005 09:21:12 -0400 Received: from vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE72085AA for ; Mon, 4 Jul 2005 15:13:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-cn.han.nl ([145.74.66.11]) by vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 28545-07 for ; Mon, 4 Jul 2005 14:18:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACCDF8474 for ; Mon, 4 Jul 2005 15:13:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D7A0C046 for ; Mon, 4 Jul 2005 15:13:32 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <42C410AE.1030707@linbox.com> <871x6iq0f1.fsf@student.han.nl> <42C53A74.4090202@linbox.com> <200507011816.51627.okuji@enbug.org> From: Marco Gerards Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 15:13:32 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200507011816.51627.okuji@enbug.org> (Yoshinori K. Okuji's message of "Fri, 1 Jul 2005 18:16:51 +0200") Message-ID: <87fyuug1dv.fsf@student.han.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new (2.2.0) at vscan-cn.han.nl Subject: Re: Broken A20 gate handling (about GPL) 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: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 13:17:03 -0000 "Yoshinori K. Okuji" writes: > We prefer assigning copyright to the FSF, but this does not mean that we may > not use others' code. The important thing is that we must carefully treat who > owns which code, so we must separate code into different files when we reuse > code written for other projects. > > This is only _my preference_, but I would like to keep critical parts of GRUB > owned solely by the FSF. So, for example, I do not care about the copyright > of a filesystem very much, but I do care about the copyright of bootstrap > code. > > In the case of the A20, I'm not sure how I want to implement it. It is not > that bad to use syslinux code, because we have our own alternative. However, > this code is very critical, and I prefer writing our own code. After all, my > opinion looks like the same as Marco. :p I am sorry that I confused some of you. My answer was not that clear, hopefully with this reply it is a bit clearer. The FSF makes a clear distinction. In the case of a library or so it can be integrated, like it was done with LZO. The A20 code is not a library. To put a lot of code from all kinds of projects in separate files is not what I prefer. Thanks, Marco