On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 09:16:14AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > The problematic file comes in a mac .sit format, is claimed to be GPL by > the author, and include the source in the above mentioned .sit (no idea > though, since i have no mac to look at them). There are various problems > though : > > 1) to build those files, not only a mac system is needed, but also an > older version of the code warrior compiler.
Yes, and it seems quite hard to circumvent. > => would mean contrib probably, but debian-installer is in main. The plan was to request a sarge-ignore tag on the "d-i build-depends on miboot, which is in contrib", and try to find a better solution for next releases. > Well, i, and the upstream author too, think that it should be possible > to rewrite this small boot sector yourself. This would need good > oldworld pmac knowledge, which i don't have. It seems only a small > part of the 1K boot-sector is used. No idea what the source code of > this would look like. Jeremie, if it came to that, since you seem to > have some of the knowledge and the hardware, would you feel like > investigating this ? It sounds like something possible, however it'd be quite hard and I'm not sure it'd be the most urgent thing. I'd first make miBoot buildable with free tools, then write a boot sector specifically targetted at it. Then we could have miBoot in main, but not before. Still it'd be a big amount of work (I'm not such a knowledgeable guy about oldworld, I never used such a machine before I tried to make it boot d-i.) > Do we have a response or a strategie for those cases, except the "give > instructions for the user to build the stuff himself from various URLS", > which was used, if i remember well, for miboot in boot-floppies. No, miBoot and the said boot block used to sit around in the boot-floppies source code, without any license or source code. I'd say the legal situation will be improved much already ! Would it be really problematic to upload the boot block along with miboot in contrib or non-free ? -- Jeremie Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
