Re: iToaster in violation of GPL?

Khimenko Victor (khim@sch57.msk.ru)
Sun, 27 Jun 1999 19:20:51 +0400 (MSD)


In <19990627145813.C4004@lrc.di.epfl.ch> Werner Almesberger (almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch) wrote:
> coonec@ccooney.dsl.speakeasy.net wrote:
>> this was lilo code, which they did rewrite after people found out.

> Funny, LILO isn't GPL and can be distributed even under slightly less
> restrictive conditions than BSD stuff ... I was actually quite pleased
> when I read that they had based their loader on LILO.

They used both Loadlin (and loadlin IS GPL'ed), LiLo and even boot loader
from Linux kernel itself (clearly GPL'ed). When they released source for
modified LoadLin and boot loaded it was just silly to keep LiLo changes
private...

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