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Re: GRUB loading.. Welcome to GRUB! error: incompatible license Entering rescue mode..



On Mon 30 Mar 2015 at 14:34:29 -0400, Doug wrote:

> /snip/
> 
> >>I couldn't find anything immediately helpful on the web so I downloaded
> >>the source code for grub. Fortunately, there's only one instance of the
> >>phrase "incompatible license" in there and it's in a small function
> >>called "grub_dl_check_license". The purpose of this function is to
> >>confirm that a module being loaded has a license of "GPLv3", "GPLv3+" or
> >>"GPLv2+". If not, then it returns the above error. I'm not intimately
> >>familiar with the GPL, but as GRUB is one of GNU's higher-visibility
> >>projects, I imagine this is seen as a perfectly cromulent thing to do.
> >>
> 
> /snip/
> 
> _cromulent_ ????

In these days of ever-present internet access its meaning is a single
one word search away.

Marvel at human imagination.


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