Re: [gPXE-devel] [Qemu-devel] Netboot happens twice (first fail) when using etherboot ROMs

[Marty Connor]

On 8/2/10 2:14 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Michael Tokarev <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Not that it is a big issue, just... weird, and annoying --
>> in Debian for example we (re)build boot ROMs during
>> package build instead of using the ones supplied in
>> the source tarball, and currently gpxe isn't packages
>> in debian, but etherboot behaves somewhat erratically
>> (but works in the end), so I wondered what the issue is.
> 
> The issue holding back gPXE from Debian is licensing clarification
> AFAIK.  There is nothing there that can't be tackled but the process
> has stalled unfortunately.  It would be great to have gPXE in Debian.
> 
> Stefan

We definitely have not forgotten about Debian licensing issues,
and in a few weeks after Google Summer of Code is over we'll go
through http://support.etherboot.org/ and deal with licensing
as well as some other issues we haven't gotten to yet.

Thanks for reminding us about this.

/ Marty /