[coreboot] Multiboot header license change

Thor Lancelot Simon tls at netbsd.org
Mon Nov 16 02:56:46 CET 2009


On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:44:31AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This is to announce that, following approval from RMS, the header in
> GRUB 2 that contains Multiboot declarations (multiboot.h) is now being
> distributed under the X11 license in latest Bazaar trunk of GNU GRUB.
> 
> With this change, we expect make it easier for OS kernel developers
> and implementors of Multiboot in general to adopt this specification.

Just to be crystal-clear about this, the NetBSD bootblocks and kernel
contain a complete Multiboot implementation which has never had any GPL
code in it.

Thor




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