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#79262 bochs 3.0 bios/i440fx.bin is non-free

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From: "Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier" <contact@hacktivis.me>
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Subject: bochs 3.0 bios/i440fx.bin is non-free
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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

Best regards




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