Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 17:20 +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: >> Javier Martín <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > 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. > > Also, Linux is under GPLv2 and GRUB is under GPLv3. This means that > Linux developers could object that their code is restricted further than > GPLv2 allows, e.g. there are additional anti-DRM provisions that the > recipients of the GRUB code has to fulfill. > > That said, I cannot imagine that copying of variable names could be > treated as a copyright violation. For instance, Wine reimplements > Windows API, and they just have to use the same names.
Please do not put words in my mouth, that is not what I said. I said looking at Linux *code* should be avoided. If you have a look at the ATA *code*, you might copy their algorithms or whatever. I am asking you to be careful. Looking at code might give you an idea about how to solve a problem, you might even implement this and legally... well, I am not sure when you violate copyright or when not. I cannot tell if you looked at their code if you opened the files, study the variable names and how they are used. -- Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel