On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 09:21:50AM -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: > Bean wrote: > >>>BTW, I notice that grub-mkimage for efi convert elf to efi internally, > >>>how about use the gnu-efi tool chain, this could make it more portable > >>>between ia32 and x86_64. > >>Is its license sufficiently compatible? Is it maintained sufficiently (or > >>else, can we take on some of the maintainership burden?) > > > >I'm no expert on license, but it's a shared library, we only need to > >use its interface, I guess this should be ok. > > if it's GPL version 2 (but not 3) then it's probably incompatible, for > example, if it's shared library.
gnu-efi is licensed under GPL 2 or later. There's no problem linking GRUB with it. Thourhg, if it's just a binary file converter license compatibility would probably not be required anyway. -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
