Re: [RFC] multiboot2 loader

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Sunday 26 November 2006 23:50, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> Nothing prevents you from writing a C library - the POSIX and C
> standards are available independently. Yet the C library is under
> LGPL. Also nothing prevents you from writing an ogg vorbis
> implementation, but the FSF advocated the BSD license for ogg vorbis
> however.
>
> What RMS said is that the GPL isn't an end itself. I agree with that,
> and I think the BSD license is more suitable for the multiboot header
> files and/or multiboot example kernel than the GPL.

You are right at the point that we adopt weaker licenses by compromise from 
time to time. But you completely miss the point that code in GRUB is not 
meant to be used for other projects. So we have no reason to compromise in 
GRUB.

Okuji