[syslinux] License Question

Lukas Schwaighofer lukas at schwaighofer.name
Sun Oct 29 16:09:02 PDT 2017


On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 18:41:18 -0400
Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Although the "All Rights Reserved" bit is supposedly implied by other
> matters, it should be under GPLv2+ (2 or higher at discretion of user)
> per README.  Files not under GPLv2+ should mention LGPL* (which I
> think there are none) or have a short license in the file like the MIT
> in com32/LICENSE.  This should only be notation of a change of the
> copyright holder, not license.

Great, thanks for clarifying.

For the record, there are a few LGPLs; I'm not completely through yet,
but so far:
* com32/gplinclude/zzjson/zzjson.h, 
* core/fs/xfs/xfs_fs.h
* extlinux/xfs_fs.h

Regards
Lukas


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