bochs 3.0 bios/i440fx.bin is non-free

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Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier wrote on 17 Aug 14:10 -0700
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Hi,

Not a Guix user but checked the packaging recipes and it doesn't
seems to be handled.

See:

TL;DR:
- Bochs 3.0 ships with the bios/i440fx.bin blob
- i440fx BIOS is under a non-free license
- Even if it would be free, it requires NBASM which ships with no source code,
and is also under a non-free license

Best regards
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Efraim Flashner wrote on 22 Aug 09:16 -0700
(name . Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier)(address . contact@hacktivis.me)(address . 79262-done@debbugs.gnu.org)
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On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 11:10:06PM +0200, Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> Not a Guix user but checked the packaging recipes and it doesn't
> seems to be handled.
>
> See:
> - https://sources.debian.org/src/bochs/3.0%2Bdfsg-1/debian/changelog
> - https://bugs.gentoo.org/961640
>
> TL;DR:
> - Bochs 3.0 ships with the bios/i440fx.bin blob
> - i440fx BIOS is under a non-free license
> - Even if it would be free, it requires NBASM which ships with no source code,
> and is also under a non-free license
>

Thanks! This is now fixed in Guix. I've opened a bug report on codeberg
under guix/guix to track the other firmware included.

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