Hello people,
This is a question and kind-of an announcement.
I'm just a few days ahead of the official opening of an online store that will sell corebooted laptops in Chile. For this purpose I've created a custom coreboot installer, and, since it's useful to me, I thought it could be useful for other people and uploaded it to the tubes.
Code is here: https://git.hacktivista.org/hackware-boot
This software is not a fork of coreboot, but an automated compiler/installer of coreboot that of course uses its tools. These are not shipped with it, but downloaded from git or the Debian repos.
In case you're wondering what's different from Skulls or osboot: It includes several security enhacements through the combination of a custom GRUB config and the usage of a custom tool called hwbtool. It also ships all available payloads that libgfxinit supports by default. I built it because I needed to automate the installation for my store's laptops.
Here the difficult part: I want to publish it (it's currently published indeed) under license that's incompatible with the GPL. The question is, is this legal? Also distributing the result of such combination?
Examples of such usage can be found here: https://git.sr.ht/~hacktivista/hackware-boot/tree/main/item/x230t/flash_spi-... https://git.sr.ht/~hacktivista/hackware-boot/tree/main/item/hwbtool#L167
As far as I understand I'm just using a software in a separate program, not linking nor intending to distribute derivatives of coreboot project programs under other license. But I thought it's better to ask.
Please refrain from asking out of topic questions regarding the software or the license on this thread. I know it might be a hot topic for some people and will happily answer via private email or even on a completely new thread here on this same list.
Thanks a lot,
Felix Freeman