ms-sys in rpmfusion?

2015-02-20 Thread Jaroslav Skarvada
Hi, ms-sys is a Linux program for writing boot records, including Microsoft compatible boot records [1]. The code is under GPLv2+, but it seems it embeds some Microsoft IP - hexdumps of MS boot records stored in C header files. Fedora refused this package [2]. My question is: is the ms-sys

Re: ms-sys in rpmfusion?

2015-02-20 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jaroslav Skarvada wrote: ms-sys is a Linux program for writing boot records, including Microsoft compatible boot records [1]. The code is under GPLv2+, but it seems it embeds some Microsoft IP - hexdumps of MS boot records stored in C header files. Fedora refused this package [2]. My question

Re: ms-sys in rpmfusion?

2015-02-20 Thread Kevin Kofler
I wrote: IMHO, you should rather try to get http://sourceforge.net/projects/ms-sys-free/ into Fedora instead. Actually, I'm not convinced this is really acceptable, either. E.g.: http://sourceforge.net/p/ms-sys-free/code/ci/master/tree/inc/br_fat32fd_0x52.h says: /* br_fat32_0x52.h // // ANI

Re: ms-sys in rpmfusion?

2015-02-20 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Jaroslav Skarvada jskar...@redhat.com said: ms-sys is a Linux program for writing boot records, including Microsoft compatible boot records [1]. The code is under GPLv2+, syslinux includes a MS-compatible boot record, just not a tool to apply it IIRC (use just use dd). Maybe