On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 06:44:21PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > Jordan Crouse wrote: > >>> > >>> Any thoughts? > >>> > >> Very very cool Patrick. If it has a BSD license it should be no > >> problem for > >> coreboot. I say the more payloads the better :-) > > > > Incorrect Joseph - most legal opinions are that BSD and GPL are > > incompatible, so it is a problem for coreboot. Not a problem for > > libpayload though - so we can borrow what we need. > Well, obviously as long as we carry around a copy of x86emu (which is > BSD, not GPL), we can accept BSD licensed patches to that code. > > I'm a bit surprised about "most legal opinions". Whose opinions are > they? Any pointers? Nobody ever complained about me linking libpayload > into FILO, for example, so it's not that incompatible). Do I have to > drop libpayload again?
It's incompatible one way: from GPL to BSD. Not the other way, afaik. So it's fine to merge BSD'd code into a GPL'd codebase and placing it under GPL, but not the other way around. Then again, that's just my understanding, and IANAL. Thanks, Ward. -- Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software Foundation - Senior Systems Administrator -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
