From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IwZYr-0000Aj-Nv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:43:26 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IwZYp-00009u-1d for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:43:23 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IwZYn-00009l-H8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:43:21 -0500 Received: from atlas.linux2go.dk ([88.198.22.52]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IwZYn-0005nD-6f for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:43:21 -0500 Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:43:17 +0100 From: Soren Hansen Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] wrong bios.bin file in Ubuntu Linux 7.10 causes blue screen on w2k guest Message-ID: <20071126084316.GP3975@atlas.linux2go.dk> References: <4745CEBA.90206@alpharesearch.de> <20071123091353.GJ3975@atlas.linux2go.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="q56cwELb5ReCVVQh" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org --q56cwELb5ReCVVQh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. =20 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.. --=20 Soren Hansen Ubuntu Server Team http://www.ubuntu.com/ --q56cwELb5ReCVVQh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHSockonjfXui9pOMRAiOWAJ0WiOYKQ9Akev/C00uUwe9lvmh2oACgm1hx 49ZgwyzBTae4NgKlG5RVpfY= =4aYa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --q56cwELb5ReCVVQh--