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This software is freely available under the GNU GPL license.
FlashTool is released as a software-development tool that allows system
administrators to create, deploy and update OS images. It also supports the
full life-cycle of operating systems, from creation to packaging.
FlashTool is designed to work with the whole OS image generation process,
including source ISO images, various live CDs and live USB images,
emergency/rescue CDs, live CDs, image contents, and bootloaders.
FlashTool is not a full-featured package generation tool. It only
provides two simple functions:
- It allows ISO image sources to be generated from CD/DVD/hard drive
images and loaded directly into RAM.
- It allows the content of an ISO image file to be copied onto a
directory in a USB device.
FlashTool was designed to speed up the process of making and using image
content. It provides a very simple user interface and, therefore, is
easy to use for a wide variety of users, regardless of their technical
expertise.
FlashTool is written in the C programming language and it should be
compatible with all C compilers. It uses SDL for its user interface, which
allows FlashTool to use graphics, sounds, mouse and keyboard events in
the same manner as SDL programs.
FlashTool uses the SDL library to display its user interface. The
FlashTool program should have no dependency on the SDL library.
FlashTool is developed and tested in Debian GNU/Linux (but it should
work with any GNU/Linux distribution). It uses the GNU autotools to
generate the source tarball and to build the software.
FlashTool is released as a stable version with a stable release cycle,
which means that the software will be kept up to date in the same manner
as other software in the same major release series.
FlashTool is distributed with the following licenses:
- GPL 2.0 for the source code of FlashTool itself and the included
toolset.
- GPL 2.0 for the LGPLed libSDL.so (but it should be possible to link
FlashTool with any SDL library, even if the LGPL version is not
compatible with
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