A considerable portion of the initial check-in of ArcanOS is based directly off the operating systems coursework labs of Dr. Lorenzo Alvisi (http://userweb.cs.utexas.edu/~lorenzo/), and I owe him a debt of gratitude for producing and distributing material to help bridge the gap between a simple "Hello World" bootloader and a functioning kernel. I believe Dr. Alvisi has released his code under an MIT license, which is GPL compatible. Some materials from the initial drop contain header files documented as under a BSD license which may not be fully GPL-compatible. Since the conflicting clause under this license is related to advertising of products, I believe that a hobby project such as ArcanOS will not produce any conflict. I am endeavoring to locate more GPL-compatible source for these files. Concerned parties should contact me at roadriverrail@gmail.com Unless explicity specified otherwise, materials in this project are copyright J. Rhett Aultman (c) 2010 and are released under the terms of the GPL v3.