On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 11:10:06PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > 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.
This also defeats the point of making GRUB 2 GPLv3, since when we backport it to GRUB Legacy we're licensing this feature in GPLv2, and then it's no longer protected against Treacherous Computing, etc. -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
