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 > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mac-fdisk]$ cat /usr/share/doc/mac-fdisk/copyright This package was debianized by Michael Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 11 Jan 1998 22:58:07 -0800. It was downloaded from ftp.mklinux.apple.com:/pub/Other_Tools/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mac-fdisk]$ cat /usr/share/doc/mac-fdisk/copyright This package was debianized by Michael Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mac-fdisk]$ looks like a BSD style licence to me. -- Ethan Benson
