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