Clarify license of boot.c to be public domain and not GPL-3 #23
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The licensing of boot.c currently makes
mkntfs
special as it's the onlytool which is subject to the GPL-3 terms.
However, the only GPL-3 bits originally come from a section of the
dosfstools
mkfs.fat.c
that has been later clarified to be underpublic domain:
dosfstools/dosfstools@3ce32fa
Reflect this in the ntfs-3g version as well, to let people who have
issues (for whatever reason) with the GPL-3 to use ntfs-3g without
any concern.