Hi. I just grabbed the latest version of Grub4dos to look at it. You
need to distribute source code for this, at the same time you release
the binary. You acknowledge that Grub4dos is a fork of Grub, so must
follow the GNU GPL. But you do not abide by it here.
Section 3 of the GNU GPL (see "COPYING" in your grub4dos-0.4.3.zip file) says:
>>>>>>
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
customarily used for software interchange; or,
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is
allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
received the program in object code or executable form with such
an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
<<<<<<
In your grub4dos-0.4.3.zip file, there is no source code. But there is
a Get_Source_of_This_Build.txt file that says you can get the source
code through SVN at gna.org. This does not meet 3a or 3b. You need to
include the sources, either inside the grub4dos-0.4.3.zip file or as a
grub4dos-src-0.4.3.zip file.
-jh
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Michael Reichenbach
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Eric asked me to post some advertisements for grub4dos.
>
> If you are interested in multi booting I bet you know gnu grub 1.x, also
> known as grub legacy. Grub legacy will be no longer developed by the gnu
> grub project. Them are now working on grub2 and they have their reasons.
>
> grub4dos is a fork of grub 1.x legacy. Sure it must follow also GPL. It
> has some exclusive features:
> - it has all features grub also has (example: chainloading other mbr is
> possible)
> - chainloading syslinux/isolinux/memdisk (grub features)
> - booting any linxu/bsd/or w/e (grub features)
> - floppyimage to floppy emulation!
> - iso to virtual CD-ROM emulation!
> - it can initialize a real CD-ROM and boot it (useful for example in
> case your BIOS does not support booting from CD-ROM; also useful if you
> just booted and decided to boot now from CD-ROM)
> - it can chainload an FreeDOS, DR-DOS, MS-DOS... kernel.sys directly
> - it can also chainload Win9x and WinNT directly
> - you can start grub4dos from within DOS (just after start or when
> unloaded incompatible TSR`s)
> - grub4dos can be also started from within NT bootloader
> - when started it removes the old operating system (such as FreeDOS)
> from the memory can start a new one
> - sure grub4dos can be also direclty booted (not only thought DOS or NT
> or Linux)
> - just like for grub it`s no problem for grub to boot from floppy,
> CD-ROM or USB (if the BIOS does support booting these devices)
>
> Note:
> Floppy / Iso Emulation works well with most 16 bit operating systems
> such as FreeDOS. Some 32 bit operating systems (such as Windows XP or
> Puppy Linux) don`t like this. You can not download a Puppy Linux
> bootable iso, store it on your harddisk, emulate it with grub4dos and
> use it. However, it`s bootable. But after the 32 bit operating system
> uses it`s own controller driver it will crash because it loses
> connection to the virtual device.
>
> - The manual can be found here:
> http://grub4dos.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
> - An English forum: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showforum=66
>
> Any questions can be asked in the forums or on their mailing list. You
> can also try the Chinese forum and a Chinese translator (never tested
> myself).
>
> PS:
> If you want to chainload a bootsector from an USB device and your BIOS
> does not support booting USB directly then you may try PLoP Bootmanager
> (http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html) (freeware, closed source)
>
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