Re: [RFC] multiboot2 loader

[Jeroen Dekkers]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:11:37AM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> 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.

You completely miss the point that we want to have header files and
example code that can be used by other projects to implement
multiboot.

Jeroen Dekkers