Re: [RFC] split floppy support off biosdisk

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 07:52:26PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 June 2008 14:54:23 Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 02:33:48PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > CCing him.
> 
> Which implementation of LZMA do you refer to? I think LZMA SDK is available 
> under LGPL, and most of LZMA Utils is also under LGPL. So there should be no 
> problem.

I expected that LGPL 2.1 wouldn't be compatible with GPL 3, but it seems
that it is;  so unless I missed something there's no problem at all.

-- 
Robert Millan

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