Re: beos-bootloader?
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
6 Apr 1998 22:01:42 GMT
Followup to: <19980406193046.47068@cerebro.laendle>
By author: Marc Lehmann <pcg@goof.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I cannot imagine somebody confusing this with lilo. This is clearly kernel
> code. The question is wether (pseudocode) "ld boot-loader.o kernel-image.gz"
> is considered "linking". (at least they used the linker to do this).
>
> Again, there is no sign of lilo code in it. it's _kernel_ code.
>
> It might have surely been some dumb attempt at getting beos to boot with
> lilo or loadlin, but this is the beos kernel image, and it clearly contains
> linux code. Wether or not they give credits (to my knowledge, they didnt
> (renaming their bootloader from lilo to belo isn't exactly fine, either)),
> is another important question only somebody owning the commercial beos
> distribution can answer.
>
> In any case, I doubt they will have a notice saying "The beos kernel image
> was linked together with some linux code".
>
Actually, the decompression module is a hunk of standard code from the
gzip or info-zip distribution (not sure which) that is quite
explicitly declared public domain (not GPL, not LGPL, not BSD, but
without any copyright and hence restrictions, whatsoever.)
-hpa
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