Bug#738577: grub-efi: incompatable licence error

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 01:06:48PM -0700, Ben Hildred wrote:
>  I am attempting to network boot a early mac mini (core solo 32 bit/ 32bit efi)
> with debian. My netboot server runs debian and other diskless boxes boot debian
> and other operating systems from this server.
>  One severe problem I have is finding a functional boot loader. One of the more
> interesting failures was when I assembled a 32 bit efi grub image with all
> modules from the stable binary. This errored out with incompatible license.
> Using the tool by Sukminder (http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/74087
> /grub-incompatible-license-error) I narrowed it down to the module adler23.mod
> the problem whent away when this module was not included. I checked the source
> from git and this module should be gpl3+.  It appears arch linux has a similar
> problem with a different module, so I suspect something fragile in the build
> system from upstream.

Are you sure that you've actually assembled modules that all come from
the same version of GRUB?  There's no useful version information in your
report; perhaps I could have a complete transcript of what you did, and
versions of all the packages involved?

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]