Re: [RFC] split floppy support off biosdisk

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:03:15AM +0800, Bean wrote:
> >> I think lzo is working fine, we
> >> should avoid switching unless there is a good reason to do so.
> >
> > ISTR Okuji didn't like it;  can't remember why.
> 
> He is concerned about compression ratio, but doesn't mind in the end:
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-12/msg00120.html

A problem I see here is that LZMA is licensed under GPLv2-only, so it'd
probably take a rewrite of the decompressor for us to use it, or ask the
author to make it "or later".

By the looks (no explicit license header in individual files) I doubt it
was an explicit decision to exclude GPLv3.  I'll try contact him.

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Robert Millan

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