[gPXE-devel] Etherboot Enterprise ID request

[Kyle Kienapfel]

Whats an enterprise ID do? This thread on the mailing list is making
it seem like I'm missing out because I don't have one. :(

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Michael Brown <mbrown at fensystems.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thursday 15 Jul 2010 04:17:09 Marty Connor wrote:
>> More importantly, you can never take back any of the rights you have
>> already given by licensing code under the GPL.
>
> Not quite true; if you were at any point to distribute the code in violation
> of the terms of the GPL [0] (for example, by distributing Etherboot binary
> images without providing either the corresponding source code or an offer to
> provide the corresponding source code) [1], then you would automatically lose
> your right to copy, modify, sublicense and distribute the code.  (No-one
> else's rights would be affected by any such violation, only yours.)
>
> Please stop acting as though you own my code.  You do not own my code.  You
> have a licence, granted by me, to copy, modify, and distribute my code,
> provided that you remain in compliance with my chosen terms.  Nothing that you
> do (short of completely removing or replacing all of my code, which you seem
> reluctant to do despite my encouragement) can change this.
>
> There are many other people who also own copyrights in parts of the iPXE/gPXE
> codebase; I speak only for myself and for my code.  I respect your copyright
> over your 2.15% of the codebase; please respect my copyright over my 41% of
> the codebase.
>
> Michael
>
> [0] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt
>
> [1] http://www.fensystems.co.uk/~mcb30/romomatic.png
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