Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 18:11:52 +0530 From: "Kamal R. Prasad" <kamalp@acm.org> To: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@sitetronics.com> Cc: Jose M Rodriguez <josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es> Subject: Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months Message-ID: <41B05F10.5010505@acm.org> In-Reply-To: <41B05C0C.9050503@sitetronics.com> References: <41AE3F80.1000506@freebsd.org> <41AE6E98.1070202@telus.net> <200412031152.32859.freebsd@redesjm.local> <41B05C0C.9050503@sitetronics.com>
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> > Anaconda is also GPLed and also requires a good few changes for most > of it to run under FreeBSD. I haven't made any of these changes, but > we looked into using Anaconda in DragonFly before we started on our > own installer, and it would have just been too much work for the > deadline we had (our 1.0 installer was written in less than 3 > months!). Yes, it is in Python, but all the VESA stuff is via > framebuffer, not an X server, so it's not something that we could use > easily. At least, this was the case when I researched it in May. > Anything GPL probably won't qualify in the first place, due to obvious > license incompatibilities. Sorry for going off on a tangent -and pl ignore if its annoying:- Can someone elaborate on the impact of GPL if one is to use lGPL'ed code without modifying it. i.e. if the kernel or library is GPL'ed and a module is developed on top of it and sold, does the GPL require one to give out the src code for the developed module too? thansks -kamal
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