> Anyway, this does this mean we also can't do the following? : > * fix any problems in the bootmanager or plex86 that prevents plex86 to > be able to *run* the bootmanager (from a floppy) As long as you clearly seperate the GPL and LGPL projects we could do the following: "join" the bootmanager developers team and send "bugfixes" to them which allow plex86 to boot the bootmanager image. This ofcourse can only be done if it doesn't break any of the current functions of bootmanager. We could also start a bootmanager for plex86 project based on bootmanager which is GPL. For this project we can edit the code of bootmanager as much as we want as long as we don't change the license or link it with non-GPL code. Bugfixes in plex86 can be done the normal way. > * make an image of a floppy containing the bootmanager (or tell people > how to make one) We can also do this. As we can also make a boot image of debian linux (which is GPL). We are not using sourcecode of the bootmanager in plex86 and we are also not linking GPL binaries with non-GPL binaries. We are running binaries. It is like running bash on windows. I know there is a special notion in GPL about running GPL programs on non-GPL operating systems. The question is: Is plex86 an operating system? > * put the floppy image online somewhere? Just like putting a debian linux image somewhere.
We can NOT: Make the bootmanager code part of the plex86 code. Copy parts of the bootmanager code in the plex86 code. Link the bootmanager binary directly into plex86. Greetings, Martin
