On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 05:41:57AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > Hi, > >> I'll have to let Christian answer for the licensing of >> cts_amiga_info.tar.gz. The rest of the amiga icons are in the d-i >> repo. If these have clear licensing (I'm pretty sure they do) then >> we should probably move them there too. >> >> As I recall they were created either by or for Christian to use with >> debian-cd. I don't believe they have a source form. > > IIRC the initial .info files (icon data needed by AmigaOS in order to > start particular install shell scripts) were created by Frank Neumann. > The others are by Christian. All were intended for distribution with the > install CDs (but Christian should perhaps confirm that). My impression > was that these files are created by some sort of resource editor which is > part of AmigaOS, so there's no source (though the file format should not > be too difficult to reverse engineer). > >> They probably shouldn't be living in tar archives anyway. :) > > Perhaps not - there may be special permissions required for these files > to be properly recognized, though (at least that's the case for start > scripts). It looks like what I wrote for debian-cd used the standard unix tools. Of course, that could be a problem as well. > Christian has written a boot script that can fall back to a known good kernel > on unsuccessful boot, maybe that can be added to whatever package gets to > provide the icon files as well? Absolutely! Or we could add it to m68kboot with amiboot. Peace, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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