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Re: [PATCH] Add fwconfig command


From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add fwconfig command
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 11:40:57 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.7.1 (2016-10-04)

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 04:36:03PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 09:52:35AM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 03:43:32PM -0800, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > + *  GRUB is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
> > > + *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> > > + *  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
> > > + *  (at your option) any later version.
> > 
> > So what is your option here (see the 'at your option'). 
> 
> This language indicates that it's at the option of the person
> redistributing or modifying it whether they do so under the terms of
> version 3 or of some later version.  Matthew is not required to pick
> one.

I mean I am reading this and it sounds like that
too but then this is an legal aggreement and those seem to
operate on some weird rules.

Does FSF have an unqualified answer to this?

> 
> Also:
> 
>   <address@hidden ~/src/gnu/grub2/git/grub (master=)>$ git grep 'at your 
> option' | wc -l
>   1412

Which could mean that nobody reads that stuff and just copies
and pastes.



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