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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:43:20 -0600
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Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
>> But please, this is not an issue worth even discussing here.  It is only
>> relevant for people distributing QEMU and it's up to those people to
>> consult with their legal teams to determine whether they need to do
>> anything special.
>>     
>
> And why complicating things downstream when it can be fixed upstream?
> Because it is only a legal issue? As a redistributor of OSS who cares a
> lot about such issues, you have a lot of "fun" getting things right when
> upstream forgot it.
>   

I don't want to mirror Bochs source code in QEMU.  That's a lot of 
commit noise, and broken version control history.  I'm setting up a git 
repo of Bochs that contains the source we use.  I'm doing this primarily 
to make it more sane for us to maintain patches against Bochs and to 
update the bios.bin without waiting for releases.  This is also what the 
FSF FAQ recommends.

It doesn't help "downstream" but it's what is most useful for us.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> But as it looks like, there is a consensus on changing the situation
> anyway. And up to now, no animal should have been harmed, too.
>
> Jan
>
>