Plex86 is a fine starting point. I am not a JD and have not read the existing license in full detail -- is the existing license GPL or FreeBSD or are there specific restrictive covenants?
I ask this because Plex86 was being funded by a commercial vendor until such time as Kevin was terminated, and Bochs was intended as a part of Kevin's livelihood if I correctly recall previous emails with him. Thanks. Yasha Karant > > On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Dr. Yasha Karant wrote: > > > If there is strong interest in the community, and we could get the existing > > VM (not VMWare -- Virtual Machine) software appropriately licensed, I can > > probably involve a few CS graduate students to develop a Plex86 like solution > > under GPL as a graduate OS project. > > By existing VM do you mean Plex86? If so, what license would you feel was > appropriate for a grad OS project (ie., what about the existing license is > distastful to you in this case?) > > If you didn't mean plex when refering to existing VM, what did you mean? > > thanks, > -emile > > > > > Yasha Karant > > > > > > > > Are you in any way affiliated with VMWare? If you say "no" but you are then > > > it's libel. Please send your reply directly to me because I don't think the > > > list wants to listen to this. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Dr. Yasha Karant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 9:41 PM > > > Subject: Re: [plex86] bochs 1.3 --> plex86? > > > > > > > > > >
