Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 20:55 +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: >> Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > I know. That's why I'll write it from specifications or maybe I'll >> > take it from the GNU/Hurd code. >> >> Taking it from Specifications will be better. >> >> I think the ATA driver of GNU Mach comes from Linux 2.0 or so. So >> that won't change anything for us ;(. > > I don't think choosing consistent names could be interpreted as a > copyright violation (except by companies like SCO, but then all bets are > off).
No, you are right. But it means that you have a look at the Linux ATA code. If you copy Linux names into our code, people could claim that we looked at Linux and based our code on it. > Anyway, if I ever have a chance to touch the GRUB ATA code again, I'll > use FreeBSD as a reference. Using specification is probably not the > best idea because we need GRUB to work on the real life hardware, and we > need to be prepared to handle known quirks in popular hardware. We were talking about not looking at copyrighted code as a reference... But looking at FreeBSD would be better than looking at Linux if we want to avoid possible copyright problems. -- Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
