Re: Including partman-hfs to the team's git project
Hi,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote (Thu, 15 Apr 2021 08:28:52 +0200):
> Hi!
>
> I created a partman-hfs package that is required for the installation of
> PowerMacs but will also allow to create HFS and HFS+ partitions on any
> machines. It might be useful on Intel Macs as well for creating shared
> partitions for dual-boot Macs.
>
> While including the necessary hfsprogs-udeb in debian-installer is a bit
> tricky due to the non-free license of src:hfsprogs, I was wondering whether
> it would be okay nevertheless to include the git repository for partman-hfs
> packaging in the debian-installer's team project?
Apparently I did not got the point regarding non-free here, when reading
this mail that day.
Now I see that partman-hfs is in contrib, and that opened my eyes.
I wonder if it's ok from the license point-of-view, to have a installer
module from contrib in the installer?
Doesn't this turn the whole installer into a no-longer DFSG-free piece of
software?
Or in other words: can we call such installer the "official Debian-Installer"?
(There is another issue about non-free firmware to be included in the
installer, and unofficial installer images were introduced for this; maybe
this is a similar thing?)
Ahhh, another thought comes to mind:
maybe this partman-hfs is for ports releases anyway, and not to be used in
official release archs?
Holger
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