Re: [PowerMac] pdisk for Debian?
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 03:20:31PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>
> > On Monday 21 February 2000, at 20 h 32, the keyboard of Stephane Bortzmeyer
> > <stephane@sources.org> wrote:
> >
> > > > AFAIK, pdisk is a freeware program from redhat, ...
> > > > is freely available from linuxppc.
> > >
> > > The licence can be found in
> >
> > It seems terribly non-free and the source does not seem to be available :-(
>
> ftp://ftp.mklinux.org/pub/mklinux-pre-R1/ppc/RedHat/RPMS/pdisk-0.7-2.ppc.rpm
> ftp://ftp.mklinux.org/pub/mklinux-pre-R1/SRPMS/SRPMS/pdisk-0.7-2.src.rpm
>
> As for how free it is, I'm not totally sure. It was done by apple, and
> pre-APSL. It's also definatly not GPL'ed. However, there is perldisk
> which is GPL'ed and does apple-style partition maps and HFS.
>
> ftp://devel.linuxppc.org/users/bbresen/perldisk/
>
debian includes mac-fdisk in the base which AFAICT is the same program
as pdisk.
[eb@socrates mac-fdisk]$ cat /usr/share/doc/mac-fdisk/copyright
This package was debianized by Michael Schmitz
schmitz@lcbvax.cchem.berkeley.edu on
Sun, 11 Jan 1998 22:58:07 -0800.
It was downloaded from ftp.mklinux.apple.com:/pub/Other_Tools/
[eb@socrates mac-fdisk]$ cat /usr/share/doc/mac-fdisk/copyright
This package was debianized by Michael Schmitz schmitz@lcbvax.cchem.berkeley.edu on
Sun, 11 Jan 1998 22:58:07 -0800.
It was downloaded from ftp.mklinux.apple.com:/pub/Other_Tools/
Copyright:
* Copyright 1996,1997 by Apple Computer, Inc.
* All Rights Reserved
*
* Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and
* its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted,
* provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and
* that both the copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
* supporting documentation.
*
* APPLE COMPUTER DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE
* INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS
* FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
*
* IN NO EVENT SHALL APPLE COMPUTER BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, OR
* CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM
* LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
* NEGLIGENCE, OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
* WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
[eb@socrates mac-fdisk]$
looks like a BSD style licence to me.
--
Ethan Benson
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