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[Xen-devel] Re: Grub2 on Xen PV

Ferenc Wagner, le Tue 19 May 2009 00:15:39 +0200, a écrit :
> Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Ferenc Wagner, le Fri 15 May 2009 16:57:01 +0200, a écrit :
> >
> >> I contacted the Grub people, and they seem more interested in
> >> creating a native Xen port of Grub than piggybacking the Mini-OS
> >> environment
> >
> > We actually had discussed a bit about that at XenSource.  If they have
> > the will to maintain it then it's all the best I guess.
> 
> I wonder if that approach would turn out much different in the end...
> 
> > They can reuse my kexec code.
> 
> Only if you relicense it.  If you're still subscribed to grub-devel,
> you already know this but if not: Grub is GPLv3+, Xen is GPLv2, so
> they can't use Xen code.  Parts of MiniOS are licensed differently,
> but it's still too swampy to work with, as it looks.  :(

Ah, damn licences issues.  For the kexec code, XenSource can decide
to relicence it under GPLv3+, as it was all written by me while I was
working there. For MiniOS that can't be done as there have been many
contributions from many parts.

Samuel

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