Javier Martín <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > El lun, 21-07-2008 a las 14:49 +0200, Marco Gerards escribió: >> 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. > So what? Aren't both Linux and GRUB under the GPL? That _should_ mean > that we can look at their code and put it into GRUB ("create a > derivative work") either as-is or modified.
For GRUB 2 we require copyright assignments. >> > 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. > I still don't understand this: the GPL includes an irrevocable grant as > long as the license is obeyed. As for copyright problems, Linux has had > several clashes (SCO et al), but in each and every instance people has > raised against the attacker, defended Linux and won in court. I say it > "offers" quite good copyright shielding. This isn't about licenses. This is about copyright. -- Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel