From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LD1Mn-0006fX-J3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:43:29 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LD1Mm-0006fL-1Q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:43:29 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45609 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LD1Ml-0006fI-SX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:43:27 -0500 Received: from qw-out-1920.google.com ([74.125.92.150]:19222) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LD1Ml-0002a1-GL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:43:27 -0500 Received: by qw-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 5so7481qwc.4 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:43:26 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <49494848.1000200@codemonkey.ws> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:43:20 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support References: <1229440810-12394-1-git-send-email-Laurent.Vivier@bull.net> <20081217135512.GJ13794@redhat.com> <49491281.9040505@siemens.com> <200812171517.52718.paul@codesourcery.com> <49492A6D.6@siemens.com> <49493372.3020205@codemonkey.ws> <4949454C.5000501@siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <4949454C.5000501@siemens.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Jan Kiszka Cc: Gleb Natapov , kvm developers , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Blue Swirl , bochs developers , Paul Brook 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 > >