[OpenBIOS] Licensing of the code.

[Dave Cinege]

David Woodhouse wrote:

> > I think a middle ground might be a licease that makes normal usage GPL
> > like but allows the OpenBIOS group (I guess that's what we are) to
> > sublicease it to  companies for the purpose listed above. (I think the
> > XFree86 project did something like this)
> 
> If we're going with the modular approach, with the final link being done at
> the last moment before the flash is blown, I believe that we could use the
> LGPL for this. I've just read through it again, and it seems to be precisely
> what we're after.
> 
> We can declare all the OpenBIOS modules to be library routines, Then the
> binary-only modules provided by manufacturers are "work that uses the Library",
> and the only real restriction on them is that they have to allow for linking
> with newer versions of our generic modules. How does that sound?

The problem comes in if they have to directly modify any of our libraries. Since this is so low-level it may be impossible to work around them in some situations.

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