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| Posted by Ben Hermans/Hyperion on 29-Sep-2002 08:03 GMT | In reply to Comment 38 (Kronos):
>Did I ever speak about PPCBoot and the way it could be adaopt to different HW ?
You compared the situation wherein bPlan would also be the provider of software (MorphOS) for competitive hardware platforms with our involvement in porting PPCBoot to the AmigaOne.
This comparison was seriously flawed.
>But is that enough to get OS4 onto a different HW ? Or is the A1 still the only
>supported HW ? It was 100% clear that bPlan would never sign that licence, and
>even Elbox seems to perform a rain-dance to avoid.
Two remarks:
1. It is not required for bPlan to enter into a license agreement with Amiga for OS 4, any DEALER can do so.
Once such an agreement has been reached, obviously Hyperion will take care of adapting OS 4 to the platform in question.
This is a non-discriminatory open licensing policy.
No preferential treatment will be given by Hyperion to any specific hardware platform as we have no financial stake in any hardware solution, only in the software solution.
This is fundamentally different from the solution proposed by bPlan whereby bPlan would provide both hardware and software.
2. Neither the SharkPPC nor the Pegasos are available for sale to end-users.
>Cause the way I read it it won't be possible to change the A1-BIOS without >destroying it's main purpose (running your OS that is), and I don't see how that >would fit in with the principles of the GPL.
Only official updates of the A1 firmware should be considered as "secure".
Do you really want people to incorporate malicious code into the firmware?
>Yes, I know a good laywer could probraly wiggle himself out of this, but I think >the GPL and the authors who write GPLed SW deserve more respect.
Believe me, you don't even need to be a good lawyer to do that.
Just read the GPL license and in particular this passage:
"In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of a storage
or distribution medium does not bring the other work under the scope of this License."
Whatever code we are incorporating into the A1 flashrom is totally unrelated to PPCBoot and therefore falls outside the scope of the GPL.
We will comply fully with the terms of the GPL license. |
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