Well, I don't think splitting out the BIOS from plex86 proper is a
purticularly good idea until there is somthing else to replace the elpin
BIOS with. It simply doesn't gain anything; we'd be contrib+non-free to
acatualy run, rather then simply non-free. The only real difference is that
contrib goes on more CDs then non-free (because non-free isn't neccessarly
distributable on CD).
(BTW, I use Debian, but am not a developer -- I know the procedures and
politics decently well, but have no input and am not going to pacakge Plex86
-- it isn't ready for it anyway.)
As to the LGPL /w nonfree problem, it isn't a problem. The BIOS is a
datafile to us; we don't link with it staticly or dynamicly. (And if you
even vaugly consider it linking, it is clearly dynamic. More dynamic then
normal dynamic linking; we don't even need it to be present at compiletime.)
-=- James Mastros
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