From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1I6KAW-0008MN-AF for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2007 01:46:20 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I6KAU-0008ME-Mu for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2007 01:46:18 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I6KAT-0008Lq-8e for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2007 01:46:18 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I6KAT-0008Ln-2o for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2007 01:46:17 -0400 Received: from smtp-vbr10.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.30]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I6KAS-0001xA-Fj for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2007 01:46:16 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (249-174.surfsnel.dsl.internl.net [145.99.174.249]) by smtp-vbr10.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l655kCBx073872 for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2007 07:46:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mgerards@xs4all.nl) From: Marco Gerards To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <200707042140.15118.okuji@enbug.org> Mail-Copies-To: mgerards@xs4all.nl Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 07:47:01 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200707042140.15118.okuji@enbug.org> (Yoshinori K. Okuji's message of "Wed, 4 Jul 2007 21:40:15 +0200") Message-ID: <87ps37ieqy.fsf@xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 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: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 05:46:18 -0000 "Yoshinori K. Okuji" writes: Hi, [...] > 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. Both are copyrighted by the FSF. I am not a lawyer, but I don't think copyright restrictions apply to the FSF. I think the only restriction the FSF has is that it should be GPLv2 or later, or at least Free Software. You can look this up on the copyright assignment papers. Personally I do not care much about GRUB Legacy. I do care about GRUB 2 and prefer we will use GPLv3. -- Marco