[syslinux] new chain cleanups - question re. preferred license

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Mar 27 13:26:49 PDT 2012


On 03/27/2012 10:06 AM, Miller, Shao wrote:
> Good day, Michal!
> 
> I seem to recall that your re-write was extensive enough that the
> license for any code derived from my partition-iteration code could be
> discarded; my permission is granted for a license change.
> 
> Having said that, H. Peter might have another preference, but otherwise
> I would suggest the GPL from the old chain.c32.  I seem to recall H.
> Peter mentioning something about an MIT license at one point, but that
> was probably for something different.
> 
> Thank you for resurrecting your effort(s)!
> 

I have been using the MIT license for anything that is a library (which
gets linked into modules), GPL for the core.

It's probably a bit more complex than desirable that way, but what can
you do...

	-hpa




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