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.. -- Soren Hansen Ubuntu Server Team http://www.ubuntu.com/
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