Re: virtualbox-dkms fails to build with 3.12-0.bpo.1-amd64 kernel
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:13:19PM -0400, Nick wrote:
> Quoth Daniel Pocock:
> > On 12/03/14 21:24, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> > > Building virtualbox's BIOS as of >= 4.2 requires the use of a compiler
> > > that's not DFSG-free (and shipping with EFI support only in the vbox
> > > packages was determined to be a bad idea by the maintainer), hence the
> > > move to contrib. See bug #691148 for details.
>
> Aw, that was a really stupid move on the Oracle peoples' part to
> require a nonfree compiler. That company...
Easy solution: don't use Virtualbox. It isn't as though there aren't a wide
variety of entirely Free virtualization solutions available.
- Matt
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