On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 07:52:26PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > 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.
I expected that LGPL 2.1 wouldn't be compatible with GPL 3, but it seems that it is; so unless I missed something there's no problem at all. -- 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
