Bug#738577: grub-efi: incompatable licence error

[Andrei POPESCU]

Control: reassign -1 src:grub2

On Lu, 10 feb 14, 13:06:48, Ben Hildred wrote:
> Source: grub-efi
> Severity: normal
> Tags: upstream
> 
> background:
>  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.
> 
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 7.4
>   APT prefers oldstable-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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