Re: ITP plex86, if it complies to DFSG
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
> The VGA BIOS from Elpin Systems, Inc. (http://www.elpin.com/)
> is now permanently licensed for use with plex86, courtesy
> of MandrakeSoft, creators of the leading "Linux-Mandrake"
> distribution (http://www.linux-mandrake.com/). You may
> freely use/distribute it with plex86, as long as it is used
> in plex86 for the intended use as a VGA BIOS.
This has changed wording slightly since I wanted to package bochs. I
don't remember if the previous discussion of this license (in the bochs
case) happened on -legal or IRC. You may try a quick search.
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.
There was some rummor about a free VGA bios, but I don't think anything
ever came about of that.
Andrew
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