But is that not ultimately the problem here? The distribution of someone else's work without permission, whether modified or not? Technically, the inclusion in a package modifies the program, its distribution package, and/or its intended method of installation.
Irrespective of the nit-picking, I still stand on my previous statements. I am all for the BB3 project, provided everyone who has "contributed" gets their proper due.
Omg, if people are going to keep bickering about the copyright issues let's just do the following:
a) For any files that exist on AmigaOS disks (or compact discs) simply create patch files for them from the original to the final state. Determine which OS the user is providing and apply the appropriate patch. This appears to be OS3.9 for the most part.
b) For any files that cannot be included in another package but that are free for download from a site such as Aminet, write a simple downloader with a modifiable file/url list that connects to the net OR uses previously downloaded files of the same name and/or version in a locally cached directory. It would be nice if each file had a handler script so that only that script could be updated when software was updated elsewhere, but this is not necessary.
c) For the rest of the files that are free to distribute put them all with the final installer alongside any patches made in step a. Do this as much as possible because having to download files from mirrors that seem to constantly break for Amiga software is a big pita.
Finally no matter how it is finally distributed, somebody (preferably several somebodies) should keep a copy of each file needed to make this Boing Bag complete. And for those people who are complaining about the name, just call it the Unofficial Boing Bag #3. That way the title is different and other people can't complain about it any more. For Christ's sake there are tons of businesses across the world that have the same name as well other products that have the same name. This is a non-issue.
I don't have a lot of Amiga specific C programming but I can write something in Python for the Amiga (I noticed there is a 68k distribution albeit older) if it would help.
