Re: New FS driver (and support for a new OS).

2000-11-05 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kurt Skauen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kurt The more I think the more certain I'm that I will never give away the Kurt copyright of my code to FSF (I shiver by the idea of even proposing Kurt it). I'm glad to see that the patches might still be

Re: New FS driver (and support for a new OS).

2000-11-03 Thread Kurt Skauen
OKUJI Yoshinori [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Kurt Skauen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New FS driver (and support for a new OS). Date: 02 Nov 2000 16:05:44 +0100 Does this mean that I'm not allowed to use this code in any other projects I might desire unless the entire project

Re: New FS driver (and support for a new OS).

2000-11-03 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
Kurt Skauen writes: KS Does this mean that I'm not allowed to use this code in any other KS projects I might desire unless the entire project is under GPL? KS That I'm not allowed to later release the same code under another KS licence? Yes, to both counts. KS I must say that even though

Re: New FS driver (and support for a new OS).

2000-11-02 Thread Kurt Skauen
Gordon Matzigkeit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The basic story is that everybody who has made major changes to GRUB except for Erich Boleyn (the original author), has assigned their changes to the Free Software Foundation. That lifts some of the legal burden from us and puts it on them to

Re: New FS driver (and support for a new OS).

2000-11-02 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Kurt Skauen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New FS driver (and support for a new OS). Date: 02 Nov 2000 16:05:44 +0100 Does this mean that I'm not allowed to use this code in any other projects I might desire unless the entire project is under GPL? As long as your license term

Re: New FS driver (and support for a new OS).

2000-11-02 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: "Ian Cass" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New FS driver (and support for a new OS). Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 07:25:51 - I know for a fact that OpenBSD is not distributed with *any* GPL code. Any packages that are not BSD licenced will not be included in the distributed operat

Re: New FS driver (and support for a new OS).

2000-11-01 Thread Kurt Skauen
OKUJI Yoshinori [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Kurt Skauen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New FS driver (and support for a new OS). Date: 31 Oct 2000 17:23:50 +0100 Are you sure this is a more "clean" solution? It seems to me that hacking the linker scripts have a larger

New FS driver (and support for a new OS).

2000-10-31 Thread Kurt Skauen
Hi, all. I have ported GRUB to the AtheOS operating system http://www.atheos.cx/ (or was it the other way around? I'm not sure :) and written a GRUB filesystem driver for the native AtheOS filesystem. I also modified the kernel to make it MultiBoot compliant and everything works nicely. I can

Re: New FS driver (and support for a new OS).

2000-10-31 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Kurt Skauen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: New FS driver (and support for a new OS). Date: 31 Oct 2000 10:48:30 +0100 Hi, all. I have ported GRUB to the AtheOS operating system http://www.atheos.cx/ (or was it the other way around? I'm not sure :) and written a GRUB filesystem driver

Re: New FS driver (and support for a new OS).

2000-10-31 Thread Kurt Skauen
Johan Rydberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kurt Skauen wrote: I'm also wondering if the filesystem driver must follow the GNU coding style? It should. So I have to rewrite it? Anybody who know about a portable code-obfuscator? :) Well, Why not use Emacs c-mode and

Re: New FS driver (and support for a new OS).

2000-10-31 Thread Jochen Hoenicke
On Oct 31, Kurt Skauen wrote: The only solution I found to this (other than hacking the linker-scripts) was to strip away the offending sections with the "-R" option to objcopy. The resulting makfile rule: %: %.exec $(OBJCOPY) -O binary -R .hash -R .dynsym -R .dynstr -R .rel.text

Re: New FS driver (and support for a new OS).

2000-10-31 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
Kurt Skauen writes: The FSF needs to hold the copyright for their projects. This ensures that the FSF has the legal right to distribute the package, and the right to defend its free status in court if necessary. KS Ok. I will wait for Gordon to come with the description then. Here I