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SubjectRe: iToaster in violation of GPL?

On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Werner Almesberger 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 the kernel-side loader sources as well, which _is_ GPL and
copyrighted. Actually the email address of the author showed up in the
binary image, so it would have been hard for them to claim otherwise ;)
They corrected the mistake.

-- mingo


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