On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:45:30AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > Actually, we could simply make an exception for miboot and get it into the
> > > archive, i think it is no worse than other cases (like amiboot, which is
> > > linked to parts of amigaos, and thus non-free), and we do distribute
> > > those (or
> > > at least used to distribute those in the woody times).
> >
> > Amiboot is not linked to parts of AmigaOS. It is linked to libnix.
>
> which in turn is not in the archive, so amiboot can never be in anything but
It's statically linked (and libnix is public domain, according to Google :-).
> contrib, and still we distribute it. and is libnix not kind of linked to some
> amigaos or amigarom parts ?
No, you don't have to link to anything to make AmigaOS calls. All you need to
know is that address 4 stores a pointer to exec.libary.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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