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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: Boot loader hacks was: Re: MAXMEM 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 19:06:33 -0800
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>> After I decided that a three stage boot process would be an 
>> easy to implement band-aid for the space problem, I decided to 
>> check the archives to see why nobody has done it yet.  Though it 
>
>http://uruk.uruk.org/grub/
>
>Doing something with this is something which has been discussed on a
>number of occasions, but only discussed.  Perhaps its GPL'd status has
>a chilling effect on its import, I don't know! :) I think it also
>suffers from BDLI (Bruce Doesn't Like It).

   Erich agreed to release all the parts that he could under BSD-style
copyright. The part that he can't is the part that does the ELF loading
(if I recall correctly), which we won't be needing right now anyway. So
GPL is not something that should effect our use of it.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project