From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Sebastian Herbszt" <herbszt@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [Bochs-developers] [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:58:51 +0100
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Laurent Vivier wrote:
> This series of patches adds a nice BIOS startup splash screen.
>
> It adds a "-splash" option allowing to specify the picture file name (a 640x480 (or less) and true color PNG) to 
> display. You can enable/disable fade in,
> fade out and bootmenu. The time to display the image can be also given (in
> seconds).
>
> Idea and some parts of code are stollen from VirtualBox (GPLv2/CDDL).

rombios.c is LGPL. Can we mix it with GPLv2/CDDL code without any downsides?

- Sebastian