Re: [RFC] multiboot2 loader

[Jeroen Dekkers]

At Sat, 25 Nov 2006 03:56:50 +0100,
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday 15 November 2006 23:48, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> > > > An exception is exactly what I am proposing. What is your objection?
> > >
> > > The GNU Project endorses the use of GPL to promote freedom. Don't forget
> > > that GRUB is a part of GNU.
<SNIP>
> > There is plenty of precedent here. So I still see nothing wrong with
> > putting a header file, which describes an interface, under a non-GPL
> > license.
> 
> Because GRUB is not a library. The spec is available independently, so you 
> can 
> write your own header easily. Nothing prevents you from doing this.

Nothing prevents you from writing a C library - the POSIX and C
standards are available independently. Yet the C library is under
LGPL. Also nothing prevents you from writing an ogg vorbis
implementation, but the FSF advocated the BSD license for ogg vorbis
however.

What RMS said is that the GPL isn't an end itself. I agree with that,
and I think the BSD license is more suitable for the multiboot header
files and/or multiboot example kernel than the GPL.

Jeroen Dekkers