Package: ntfs-3g Version: 0.0.0+20070920-1 Severity: serious On Dec 20, Sam Morris <s...@robots.org.uk> wrote:
> That reminds me... I wonder if anyone has looked into the legal status of > boot_array from ntfs-3g? > > https://sources.debian.net/src/ntfs-3g/1:2015.3.14AR.1-1/ntfsprogs/boot.c/ There is not much to look at: while it would be hard to argue that this Microsoft-originated software cannot be redistributed for this purpose, I think that it is quite obvious that it is missing the corresponding source code and that until proven otherwise it must be assumed to not allow derivate works. So it is clearly not DFSG free and should eventually be removed. Unless I am missing something about the NTFS on-disk structure, then the first 512 bytes (the boot record proper) can be easily replaced by the code from dosfstools and the rest (the first part of NTLDR) can be omitted since it is only useful if you need to boot a Windows OS from the disk, which would need to be installed from other sources anyway (Windows PE has a program to install NTLDR, in needed). -- ciao, Marco
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