2017-04-03 10:24 GMT+02:00 Emmanuel Kasper <[email protected]>:

>
> Hi Thomas
> I think Stephane wants to *create* boxes using VirtualBox ( currenly the
> Virtualbox boxes are create with Qemu then converted to the VirtualBox
> format)
>

Yes is that.


>
> @stephane:
> VirtualBox is non-DFSG free. It relies the non free compiler OpenWatom
> to buildthe bios. This is why it is not used to create the Boxes, as we
> want to work with a free toolchain. You can look up the details on the
> ITP buck report for openwatcom.
>

Ok then I need to use a fork and never push my update to upstream? :(


>
> If anybody has contact at SAP to ask them how to reconsider the license
> of the openwatcom compilers I am all hears (it's rather an hobbyist
> product now)
>

I think that  https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Watcom is old stuff never
updated.
I think that reconsider the license can take too energy ? contact all
contributor...? isn't it?

Best regards,
Stéphane

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