[Qemu-devel] Re: [Bochs-developers] [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support

[Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>]

Le mercredi 17 décembre 2008 à 22:58 +0100, Sebastian Herbszt a écrit :
> 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?

Good question. But the GPLv2 code is not in rombios.c (but in logo.h,
logo.c) and moreover VirtualBox uses the same rombios.c with their GPLv2
logo.[ch]... perhaps we can ask Sun lawyers ;-) ?
I'm the author of all the code added to rombios.c to manage splash
screen and I agree to put this under LGPL. For the logo.[ch], I keep
only approximately 20% of original VirtualBox code (data structure, to
set vga mode, to clear screen and some name), if needed I can rewrite
this to put logo.[ch] under LGPL.

Regards,
Laurent
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