On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 08:56:56AM -0800, Willow Schlanger wrote:
> Hey, I have a VGA BIOS of my own. If I give you guys the source code,
> to use in Plex, will it go under LGPL? I'd much rather put it under
> GPL. [...] Here's what I'm going to do: e-mail me if it is OK to have it
> under GPL rather than LGPL. Will that require changing all of plex to
> GPL? Is it OK with you guys? What I don't want, is I don't want
> companies like VMWare to use my work. If someone wants to use my work,
> I'd like it under GPL so that people can get the source code.
I don't think that putting it under GPL with the rest of plex86 in LGPL is a
problem. We aren't doing anything the GPL doesn't like. Specificly, we
aren't staticly linking. We aren't even dynamicly linking; the vga bios is
just a datafile that gets executed as a side-effect. IANAL, though.
> It's written in assembly language and is well commented and is 100%
> compatible including 320x400-256 (which can be done via the BIOS if you
> set a bit in low memory), and it has a VESA STUB (it appears to be
> compatible with VESA 1.0 to programs that inquire, but for the modes it
> supports, all it provides are the standard VGA modes.)
Sounds like exactly like what we need!
Oh, does it use AT&T- or Intel-style asm? Either way, we're OK, it will
just take a little effort to convert it if it was intel-style. (DOS
assemblers except gas/djgpp use intel-style, most unix assemblers use at&t.)
> Please note that my e-mail has been on the frisk.
BTW, it's fritz. Frisk is what airport security does if they don't like you.
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