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    SubjectRe: iToaster in violation of GPL?

    On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Werner Almesberger wrote:

    > coonec@ccooney.dsl.speakeasy.net wrote:
    > > this was lilo code, which they did rewrite after people found out.
    >
    > Funny, LILO isn't GPL and can be distributed even under slightly less
    > restrictive conditions than BSD stuff ... I was actually quite pleased
    > when I read that they had based their loader on LILO.

    they used the kernel-side loader sources as well, which _is_ GPL and
    copyrighted. Actually the email address of the author showed up in the
    binary image, so it would have been hard for them to claim otherwise ;)
    They corrected the mistake.

    -- mingo


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