Hi! On Sun, 2023-05-28 at 07:54 +0200, Linux User #330250 wrote: > > Perhaps GRUB could use whatever yaboot uses to create the > > Apple_Bootstrap partition and bless it with ybin, or was yaboot > > violating Debian license rules with its ybin and use of HFS? Similarly, > > perhaps GRUB could be enabled to boot Mac OS X or Mac OS 9 volumes in > > the same way that yaboot already does. > > As I understood it, the problem is that the parts required to do that > are non-free...
Yes, that is the main problem. FWIW, I have reached out to Apple's Legal Department and asked them whether it would be possible to relicense the »hfs« package under a more permissive license such as MIT or any of the BSD licenses. The source code for the HFS(+) filesystem utilities used to be part of the »diskdev_cmds« [1] package but was later split into its own package called »hfs« [2]. I argued that the »hfs« package is required for interoperability and it would make it for distributions much easier to ship the »hfs« package if its covered by a truly free license. I guess that the fact that the HFS code got split out of »diskdev_cmds« could make it easier for Apple to change the license. Adrian > [1] https://github.com/apple-opensource/diskdev_cmds > [2] https://github.com/apple-opensource/hfs -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
