On Wed, March 21, 2007 7:14 am, Marcelo Coelho said: > I've seen the LinuxBios presentation and I'd like to know if there is > a technical reason that would prevent the creation and distribution of > binary BIOS files, ready to be flashed onto the motherboard's BIOS. > > If that could be done, then the possibility of a developer signing a > NDA with Intel to develop a BIOS for it could be done, right?
LinuxBIOS code is licensed under the GPL, which requires the source code to be made available on request. That prevents binary-only distributions. Besides, what's the benefit of a binary-only LinuxBIOS over a binary-only PhoenixBIOS? That said, it may be possible to write GPL'd source code based on documents provided under NDA. It all depends on the specific terms of the NDA. There is no such thing as a "standard" NDA. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Reece R. Pollack 301.461.2653 Principal Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ThePTRGroup.com Embedded, Real-Time Solutions -------------------------------------------------------------- -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
