Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot & amiboot & ..

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

Sven Luther wrote:
> If i came up with the following : 
> 
>   1) A description in text form of what the individual bits of this 1K
>   boot sector does, and what is needed for miboot booting.
>   2) a small C program or shell script which generate said 1K boot
>   sector from some kind of more formal version of the above description.
> 
> Would it then be considered as free and could go in main ?

No, it would be a derived work of this non-free code, unless you did a
clean-room reimplementation. Having 1 person do 1) and someone else do
2) based only on 1) is prettly close to properly doing such a
reimplementation though.

-- 
see shy jo

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