Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Jun 1999 16:37:43 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: iToaster in violation of GPL? |
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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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