On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:48:36 -0400, Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Michael Chang
wrote: 2) using a GPLv3-covered bootloader to help protect users against the dangers of Restricted Boot
Some may argue then the operating system must be licensed through a GPL copyleft license? Or is there a consensus the GPL v3 bootloader can load any operating system without an issue?
I don't think that could be a requirement, otherwise Windows would have to be GPL licensed as well (or GRUB would have to be made intentionally incompatible with chainloading), wouldn't it? Seems it would be extremely unlikely (and unreasonable) for the GRUB authors to try to push the GPL3 to any OS that might be booted with GRUB. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org