From: Soren Hansen <soren@ubuntu.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] wrong bios.bin file in Ubuntu Linux 7.10 causes blue screen on w2k guest
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:43:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071126084316.GP3975@atlas.linux2go.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fb249edb0711230548n4cab318alaf9bab295cd8ad9c@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 02:48:34PM +0100, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
>>> As far as I understand Qemu uses the BIOS from the Bochs project and
>>> the diff is applied for Qemu and it becomes the Qemu BIOS.
>> If that's really the case, I'm curious why it's distributed in its
>> binary form rather than being built at runtime.
> build-time? Perhaps because the (cross-)compiler used to build the
> BIOS is not present in many distros and would be a quite inconvenient
> dependency.
I happened to discuss this with someone yesterday, and he pointed out
something even graver, that I had somehow completely overlooked. bochs
is licensed under the LGPL, so shipping a binary built from bochs
without also shipping the full source, is actually in violation of
bochs' license..
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Soren Hansen
Ubuntu Server Team
http://www.ubuntu.com/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-26 8:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-22 18:47 [Qemu-devel] wrong bios.bin file in Ubuntu Linux 7.10 causes blue screen on w2k guest Markus Schulz
2007-11-23 9:13 ` Soren Hansen
2007-11-23 13:48 ` andrzej zaborowski
2007-11-23 15:20 ` Soren Hansen
2007-11-26 8:43 ` Soren Hansen [this message]
2007-11-23 15:10 ` Thiemo Seufer
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2007-11-22 7:08 Markus Schulz
2007-11-22 9:18 ` Soren Hansen
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