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Re: [RFC] split floppy support off biosdisk


From: Robert Millan
Subject: Re: [RFC] split floppy support off biosdisk
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:33:48 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 02:22:15PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> 
> A problem I see here is that LZMA is licensed under GPLv2-only, so it'd
> probably take a rewrite of the decompressor for us to use it, or ask the
> author to make it "or later".
> 
> By the looks (no explicit license header in individual files) I doubt it
> was an explicit decision to exclude GPLv3.  I'll try contact him.

Actually, after checking:

  http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility

it seems there's no problem.  But I'd like to see what Okuji thinks about it.

-- 
Robert Millan

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