On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Peter Stuge <[email protected]> wrote: > Chauhan, Himanshu wrote: > > > Chauhan, Himanshu wrote: > > > > In that case would it make sense to put it in FILO which is GPL? > > > > > > Yes, I think that's a very good idea. > > > > But to my understanding, it would convert FILO from GPLv2 to GPLv3. > > Isn't it? > > Adding a source file with a particular license does not automatically > affect the license of other source code. > > But creating a work which includes some GPLv3 code does require all > other code to be compatible with that new GPLv3 code. > > I notice that currently this is not the case for FILO, since the > license of other source files is GPL version 2 only. > > You are correct that in order to include GPLv3 code into FILO, it > would be neccessary for copyright holders for existing files to agree > on changing the license of those files to one which permits combining > their work with GPLv3 code. The simplest change would be to change > from current "GPLv2 only" to "GPL v2 or later" - but I do not know if > all copyright holders would agree, and/or if it is something we want > to even attempt. Some copyright holders might not be involved in the > coreboot project anymore. :\ > > > It can be possible to mix different licenses, but it does make things > more complicated. > > The license issue aside, I think that FILO is a more natural place > for storage device drivers than libpayload. (Ron, here we go, drivers...) > > Maybe it is easiest to use SeaBIOS to do what you want? :) > > Hmmm... It would rather be much easier to write my own version of Virtio layer for Coreboot/FILO than using SeaBIOS. I don't want to use any software, as guest under Xvisor, with any kind of modifications.
I hate L/GPL3 for this incompatibility. This affects the derived work. But it seems nothing can be done. So shall I abandon this review too? I think I should. Let me work on it from scratch. I will probably make it GPL2 than BSD. Himanshu > > //Peter > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot > -- Thanks = Himanshu =
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