RE: grub-extras legal and technical status (was Re: ZFS imported into GRUB)

[Nathan Coulson]

>> 915resolution and ntldr-img (which is grub4dos functionality - right?)
>>are under GPL3 (COPYING files in the respective repos).
> Is mostly an unclean hack adapted from a standalone program by someone else 
> than the original author.

That would be me (http://nathancoulson.com/proj_grub2_915.shtml).
Made a few years back, based upon the original 915resolution
(According to LICENSE.txt from 915resolution, 915resolution is in the
public domain).  Since KMS was added to the linux kernel, though, I
have not done any maintenance on it (although it looks like some
distributions have added onto this work).

Oh, and just to clarify, I never licensed it under the GPL3.  I have a
passing familiarity with the GPL and other licenses, but at the time I
wrote this I was not sure how it should have been licensed (My only
concern when it came to licensing is that I did not change much from
915resolution, and 915resolution was not my work).

According to LICENSE.txt from 915resolution 0.5.3 package,
http://915resolution.mango-lang.org/, 915resolution is in the Public
Domain.

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