Re: Source for booting CDs

[OKUJI Yoshinori]

From: Thierry Laronde <address@hidden>
Subject: Source for booting CDs
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 11:27:53 +0100

> As far as I know, GRUB started from the *BSD bootloader, and this license is
> a free one, AFAIK. Does it cause a problem to start working with it in order
> to include the support in GRUB ?

No, but GNU recommends GPL rather than BSD-style license, so please
avoid using code under BSD-style license, whenever you can use
alternative code distributed under GPL (or LGPL).

Also, note that I prefer code whose copyright is assigned to the FSF,
to code whose copyright someone else retains. This does _not_ mean
that you shouldn't steal code from other software, but I'd recommend
writing code from scratch yourself, if that is feasible. For examples,
I stole code from Etherboot, because I didn't think it would be
worthwhile implementing network drivers myself and Etherboot was under
the term of GPL, while I wrote the serial device driver myself,
because that was really easy and I could find no FSF-copyrighted
serial driver.

Okuji