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Re: Bochs / VGA-Bios license question / freebios anyone?



On 13 Aug 2000 goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de wrote:

> Bochs is a i386 emulator that is now LGPL, but it uses a commercial
> VGA-bios that free for bochs and only for use with bochs.
> 
> The question is, can I package the bios? I presume that it would go to
> non-free if at all.
>...

That sounds as if non-free is the right place. Or the best is you make two
packages: A vga-bios package in non-free and a bochs package in contrib.

> MfG
>         Goswin

cu,
Adrian

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"Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
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