[OpenBIOS] [IMPORTANT] Legal Issues.

Ronald G Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Tue Aug 28 10:01:31 CEST 2001


On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Stefan Reinauer wrote:

> For clarification: This does not mean that we do not like or do not want to
> use GPL as OpenBIOS license. GNU projects are rather those mentioned on the
> GNU website and following a set of rules including to use GNU utilities for
> development whenever possible as well as following some GNU coding
> conventions. But this does not always make sense.

Exactly. We were looking at making linuxbios a GNU project and did not
like all the overhead and conditions, plus I am told you have to use
autoconf etc. which makes ZERO sense for linuxbios.

GPL is not the same as being a GNU project.

ron

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