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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:54:26 -0800
From: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH 5/24] i386 Vmi code patching
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Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
>   
>> The code _you_ wrote can be put under any license(s) you want, so in
>> the worst case you do not need to rewrite your .c files.
>>     
>
> The license might affect which other OSes could link in
> the ROM though...
>   

That's actually a hideously good point.  I think that means, in fact, 
that the ROM code specifically cannot be GPL'd - otherwise BSD might be 
unable to use it.  The LGPL might be more appropriate.

Zach

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