Hi Eric, First of all, I am not lawyer. So, please do not treat anything below as a legal advice.
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 10:38:36AM -0400, Eric McCorkle wrote: > As part of my work on FreeBSD (re)-integration, I would like to pull in > some code from the FreeBSD loader for GELI volumes. Specifically, there > were some changes a while back that did things like store keys and check > new volumes against the cached keys. I also noticed when I looked at > the current GELI code in grub that it doesn't seem to be zeroing out > keys properly when done with them. > > This of course introduces a licensing question. The FreeBSD loader code > is under the 2-clause BSD license. I noticed that the current GELI code > seems to incorporate a 2-clause BSD banner; is it therefore acceptable > to simply update the banner? Please take a look at [1], [2], [3] and [4]. AIUI this means that you are allowed to release your new combined GELI code under the GPLv3. Though I would suggest to confirm that with legal folks. Daniel [1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html.en [2] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html [3] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhatIsCompatible [4] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhatDoesCompatMean _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
