On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 11:57:12AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:45:30AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Actually, we could simply make an exception for miboot and get it into > > > > the > > > > archive, i think it is no worse than other cases (like amiboot, which is > > > > linked to parts of amigaos, and thus non-free), and we do distribute > > > > those (or > > > > at least used to distribute those in the woody times). > > > > > > Amiboot is not linked to parts of AmigaOS. It is linked to libnix. > > > > which in turn is not in the archive, so amiboot can never be in anything but > > It's statically linked (and libnix is public domain, according to Google :-).
Still not in debian/main, so amiboot needs to go to contrib. > > contrib, and still we distribute it. and is libnix not kind of linked to > > some > > amigaos or amigarom parts ? > > No, you don't have to link to anything to make AmigaOS calls. All you need to > know is that address 4 stores a pointer to exec.libary. Well, maybe, but that still counts as linking, i doubt there is any more philosophical difference in doing this than dynamically linking with a library. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
