On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Steve Gehlbach wrote: > The point was, is it a proprietary BIOS from a mfr of the > video/motherboard? I got the impression we were talking of copying a > binary into the project, and wanted to know if it was a copyrighted and > proprietary work. Or did I miss the point?
you missed the point. We will never copy a vga bios into the tree in any place unless given permission. > The issue is that just > because you bought the board doesn't mean you have the right to copy the > BIOS code, unless the mfr is specifically giving us the license to do that. Fair use says, I think, that you can copy a bios from your machine to your machine for personal use. Certainly that's what you do when you load a new bios image from a web site. You can't distribute it. So ADLO supports getting the VGA bios out of your on-card bios and building it into linuxbios. That's how it is done: copy it from your machine to your machine. VGABIOS, on the other hand, just finds the on-card bios and runs it. ron _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios