Re: [Etherboot-developers] Q: GPL license clarification.

[<ke...@us...>]

>Would everyone be amenable to some additional language
>in the GPL license clarifying that simple aggregation of
>etherboot in the same rom as another BIOS.  Does not constitute
>linkage and does not slurp the vendors ROM under the GPL.
>
>I don't think anyone has intended that but I have had at
>least one nervous BIOS vendor say something about it.

Do you mean some clarification that putting Etherboot in the ROM does
not suck in the BIOS under the GPL? I think this paragraph in COPYING is
the relevant one:

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.