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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 03 2012 @ 01:23 PM EDT |
What I fail to understand is why the FSF cannot just allow
Canononical to make
their ree choice of which to use, and this is the part I
find troublesome.
It's just a matter of who's freedom you are
referring to.
You are saying that Canonical should be free to pick the
bootloader that they wish to use.
FSF wants a GPLv3 bootloader because they
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 04:37 PM EDT |
You state:
My reading of the piece was that the FSF had gone to
some lengths to try and persuade Canonical to use a GPL3 bootloader and now they
have declined, they have "gone public" about it.
Perhaps you can
point out where it identifies FSF had "gone to some lengths to try and persuade
Canonical". And I'm not sure if you meant to say "FSF have gone public" or
"Canonical have gone public" but just to clarify the timeline:
Canonical
went public with their decision outlining their interpretation of GPL
v3
then
FSF went public with their understanding of why Canonical is
misstaken in Canonical's interpretation of GPL v3
So perhaps you could
provide a link that shows FSF trying to pressure Canonical.... as opposed to
simply trying to correct a mis-understanding on how to interpret a
License.
As for your understanding that Canonical is planning on using a
bootloader under GPL v2, I offer up the following from an
article (knowing journalists easily get facts wrong):
Canonical
has decided to use Intel's efilinux loader
And... it's not licensed
under any version of the GPL. It's licensed under
BSD. Which allows a proprietary company to wrap it up in a nice binary and
not provide any source at all. Like when Microsoft took the BSD covered network
protocols, changed them, then implemented them claiming
compatibility.
Perhaps you could provide a link that identifies Canonical
choosing a different bootloader then the one identified above?
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