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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, The OpenBIOS Mailinglist <openbios@openbios.org>

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> IANAL, but from the FSF GPL FAQ, you just have to make sure the source 
> code is available.  Since Blue Swirl is an Open BIOS maintainer, I 
> think we can say with confidence that the openbios code will always be 
> available.  If that situation changed for some reason, we'd have to 
> mirror their code.

Specifically:

http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#SourceAndBinaryOnDifferentSites

Not too long ago, I went through and attempted to make sure the 
instructions in pc-bios/README were very clear how to obtain the sources 
for the binaries we ship.  Patches are always welcome if people think 
they need clarification.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori
>
>