Hi, >Maybe I don't quite understand what VirtualBox upstream meant by this >sentence, but if the SeaBIOS license does not allow modification, >then it would not be DFSG-free, so the fact that VirtualBox is in >contrib would actually be an error, because it should rather be in >non-free. And that would be irrespective of the compiler used. > >Am I missing something here?
SeaBIOS license is not used by VirtualBox, and I think a good reason for excluding it is: "SeaBIOS may be distributed under the terms of the GNU LGPLv3 license. Both source code and binaries are available." Virtualbox is under GPL-2 with a lot of exception, allowing it to be used with MPL, Apache 2.0, OpenSSL. So, LGPL-3 will be too restrictive I think for them. G.
