Re: [RFC] split floppy support off biosdisk

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Tuesday 17 June 2008 14:54:23 Robert Millan wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 02:33:48PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 02:22:15PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > > A problem I see here is that LZMA is licensed under GPLv2-only, so it'd
> > > probably take a rewrite of the decompressor for us to use it, or ask
> > > the author to make it "or later".
> > >
> > > By the looks (no explicit license header in individual files) I doubt
> > > it was an explicit decision to exclude GPLv3.  I'll try contact him.
> >
> > Actually, after checking:
> >
> >   http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility
> >
> > it seems there's no problem.  But I'd like to see what Okuji thinks about
> > it.
>
> CCing him.

Which implementation of LZMA do you refer to? I think LZMA SDK is available 
under LGPL, and most of LZMA Utils is also under LGPL. So there should be no 
problem.

Okuji