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Ok some more full comments.

> It boots fine with both loadlin and lilo, which made my look into the file a
> bit more:

Firstly its meant to boot with Lilo. AFAIK Be both openly use and ship Lilo
according to the rules

> I then ripped the gzip file (beginning at offset 0x482b), which
> did not show any signs of Linux (so they didn't just take Linux
> and put a BeOS sticker on it).
>
> Anyway, the boot-code looks suspicously like simply taken from Linux.

Its possible someone made an innocent mistake in what is and is not 'Lilo'.
Also if they provide source and notice for the loader since its simply a loader
for another program not linked with it (well not in I think a meaningful way)
its probably ok if they distribute the source and GPL credits for the
bootcode they are using.

Alan


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