Sven Luther wrote: > If i came up with the following : > > 1) A description in text form of what the individual bits of this 1K > boot sector does, and what is needed for miboot booting. > 2) a small C program or shell script which generate said 1K boot > sector from some kind of more formal version of the above description. > > Would it then be considered as free and could go in main ?
No, it would be a derived work of this non-free code, unless you did a clean-room reimplementation. Having 1 person do 1) and someone else do 2) based only on 1) is prettly close to properly doing such a reimplementation though. -- see shy jo
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