[syslinux] Licensing petition about isohybrid

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Nov 10 08:36:46 PST 2008


Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hello to hpa,
> 
> as announced in previous mails, we implemented
> your isohybrid algorithm inside xorriso and
> libisofs. Both are currently under GPL, so there
> is no licensing issue yet.
> But our libraries shall some day be released under
> LGPL (when the GPL legacy in libburn is gone).
> So there will be a license issue in future.
> 
> I consider you to be the main copyright holder
> of the MBR generator in libisofs which is a
> translation of your programming work. See:
>   http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Emetalpain2002/libisofs/vreixoml/annotate/395?file_id=make_isohybrid_mbr.c-20081018142959-fdyqj1p1id2zn9i1-1
> 
> Would you be willing to give us a LGPL, or a
> BSD license, or even donate your copyright share
> on that C function make_isohybrid_mbr() to our
> libburnia project ?
> 

Hi there,

I hereby give permission for this code, translated to the C language, to
be released under either the LGPL or the MIT/ISC/2-clause BSD licenses
or both, at your option.

Sincerely,

	H. Peter Anvin




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