Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: beos-bootloader? | Date | 6 Apr 1998 22:01:42 GMT |
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Followup to: <19980406193046.47068@cerebro.laendle> By author: Marc Lehmann <pcg@goof.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > I cannot imagine somebody confusing this with lilo. This is clearly kernel > code. The question is wether (pseudocode) "ld boot-loader.o kernel-image.gz" > is considered "linking". (at least they used the linker to do this). > > Again, there is no sign of lilo code in it. it's _kernel_ code. > > It might have surely been some dumb attempt at getting beos to boot with > lilo or loadlin, but this is the beos kernel image, and it clearly contains > linux code. Wether or not they give credits (to my knowledge, they didnt > (renaming their bootloader from lilo to belo isn't exactly fine, either)), > is another important question only somebody owning the commercial beos > distribution can answer. > > In any case, I doubt they will have a notice saying "The beos kernel image > was linked together with some linux code". >
Actually, the decompression module is a hunk of standard code from the gzip or info-zip distribution (not sure which) that is quite explicitly declared public domain (not GPL, not LGPL, not BSD, but without any copyright and hence restrictions, whatsoever.)
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