Re: ITP plex86, if it complies to DFSG
Actually.. If they're distributing the BIOS as part of an LGPL'd package,
instead of a seperate component, would we even be able to redistribute it
at all?
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
> > The key sticking point was the "with plex86" in the second to
> > last line. If the bios was a second package, one could argue that it
> > wasn't distributed with plex86.
>
> Yes, you are quite right, I guess for the moment as plex86 is almost
> unusable without vga (no serial, no net) I think it sounds good to put it
> all as a package in non-free and thus avoid the "you are not distributing it
> with plex86" problem :-)
>
> > There was some rummor about a free VGA bios, but I don't think anything
> > ever came about of that.
>
> Haven't heard anything, and it isn't on the plex source, so...
>
> I'll ask about this however.
>
> Regards...
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