[gPXE-devel] Etherboot Enterprise ID request

[Marty Connor]

Michael Brown wrote on 7/14/10 7:18 PM:
> Fine by me;

You have no authority to agree to anything on behalf of the Etherboot 
Project, so this is of no effect.

> Marty: changing the enterprise ID number in the iSCSI implementation doesn't
> alter the copyright status.

While it is true that you claim copyright on a lot of GPL'ed 
("copylefted") [0] code that is in the gPXE codebase, that fact makes no 
practical difference for our purposes.

The GPL gives us (and everyone else) the right to use, modify, and 
redistribute code licensed under it, including code you claim copyright 
to, provided that we follow the terms of GPL.

More importantly, you can never take back any of the rights you have 
already given by licensing code under the GPL.

> If you're really concerned about this particular
> instance of your continuing to use my enterprise ID in my code then you could
> use the ISID "Random" option, which doesn't require any IANA-assigned numbers.
> (RFC 3720 section 10.12.5, if you haven't read it yet.)
> Michael

Noted.

/ Marty /

[0] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt