[arch-general] Fifa: Flexible Installer Framework for Arch linux

[Aaron "Hussein" Griffin]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 8:08 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:20 AM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter at plaetinck.be> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 17:36 -0500, Aaron "Hussein" Griffin wrote:
>>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Aaron Hussein Griffin
>>> <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter at plaetinck.be> wrote:
>>> >> Right now I'm still working on better understanding the archboot
>>> >> scripts, refactoring that code to make it reusable and building an
>>> >> automated, prescripted installer for
>>> >> myself.  ( Once the basics are working, it should actually be very
>>> >> simple to port the current archboot scripts to this system. )
>>> >
>>> > Just to let you know, the archboot scripts are no longer the preferred
>>> > way of doing this. Additionally, installation should (hopefully) be
>>> > unrelated to how the medium was booted. Archboot really just controls
>>> > how an ISO boots.  Please see the archiso and installer projects in
>>> > git.
>>>
>>>
>>> Forgot this part: Other than that, this looks awesome! Great work
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ok, pretty silly.. I was looking at all the projects yesterday, I must
>> have overlooked the 'installer' repo, because after some searching I
>> eventually found the scripts in a subdirectory of the archboot project,
>> so I called them that way
>> ( http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=archboot.git;a=tree;f=installer )
>>
>> Yesterday I've been working on splitting up the quickinst and setup
>> scripts in functions, which are now in files sourced as 'libraries' by
>> the fifa main program.  Now I just need to put the pieces together, and
>> probably hack some more to get it working.
>>
>> PS: Does anyone know what license the installer scripts are under?
>> (http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=installer.git;a=tree )
>> Fifa is gplv3, is it okay if I put a note that says I took the sources
>> from above repository and modified/refactored them a bit, giving credit
>> to the original author ( Tobias Powalowski ) ?
>
> Without giving a definite answer, I would say our installer is under
> GPLv2 (or later) like most of the rest of our stuff. Someone correct
> me if I'm wrong.
>
> In addition, the original author is actually Judd, with Tobias doing a
> lot of work and now Simo, Aaron, and I chipping in as well.

Yeah. Let's throw a COPYING file in there, as I believe this was originally gpl2