On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 07:28:50PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > Leendert van Doorn wrote: >> Avi wrote: >>> This is worrying as it will cause us to diverge from upstream bochs bios. >> Yep. I'll create a less invasive patch. I've been looking at SEABIOS which >> seems a much better alternative but the GPLv3 license worries me, especially >> when you have proprietary guests that calls back into it. > Surely, the BIOS call interface is a GPL boundary, just like the Linux > syscall interface. Kevin, is that not the case? If it is a GPL > interface, can you add an explicit exception to make it clear?
I would not want the SeaBIOS license to extend to an emulator that deploys SeaBIOS nor to any regular real-mode apps that call SeaBIOS handlers. I'd be happy to make this explicit. -Kevin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
