On Dec 31, 2007 5:18 AM, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I asked the upstream about this in 2003. See the answers here:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=694012&group_id=59200&atid=490228
The argument seems to be it is not copyrightable because it is
trivial. However looking the code with similar functionality in lilo
(first.S) and grub (stage1.S), the assembled code may be small, but
writing it is definitely not trivial.
You are right Chich-Chung Chang.
My argument is the following one. I can make a free software program
that can generate a Windows XP install disk without copyright infrigment.
How's that possible?!!
It's very easy. I just define some character arrays with the windows xp
binary data saved into hexadecimal values and I write some functions to
generate a file with the ISO extension from these character arrays.
You know. Windows XP install disk is very common and everyone has it
throught P2P thus there's no copyright problem. Microsoft would have
complained against P2P networks if there was any problem.
Doesn't my reasoning remember someone the ms-sys one with the ms boot
records?
In my opinnion ms-sys package should be removed inmediately from Debian
repositories!
adrian15
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