From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?Q?G=C3=A1bor_Boskovits?= Subject: Re: [outreachy] am I in the right track to contribute Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 21:07:25 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20181009181740.1f88bbf2@alma-ubu> <20181011205502.2f2f433a@alma-ubu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39054) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAgJA-000284-KY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 15:07:41 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAgJ9-0004BG-Pj for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 15:07:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20181011205502.2f2f433a@alma-ubu> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: =?UTF-8?B?QmrDtnJuIEjDtmZsaW5n?= Cc: Guix-devel , Ricardo Wurmus Bj=C3=B6rn H=C3=B6fling ezt =C3=ADrta (= id=C5=91pont: 2018. okt. 11., Cs, 20:55): > > Hi Laura, > > nice to here from your progress. > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 11:31:26 -0300 > Laura Lazzati wrote: > > > Luckily yesterday I ended up late at night and found that I could > > import my VM with Ubuntu guest with guix running. I do have a > > question. I use Virtualbox, and Downloaded the .iso file of GuixSD, I > > have just installed the VM for GuixSD in VirtualBox - I read that in > > the documentation it is mentioned to use quemu- but strangely I > > managed to install it without any problems in VirtualBox with the .iso > > I have a Windows-PC with VirtualBox where GuixSD is running stable > since at least half a year. > > I think the recommendation with QEMU is more about freedom: As far as I > know there are some issues with software-freedom. The only reference I > found is some older Trisquel discussion claiming some compiler is only > open source, but not nonfree: > > https://trisquel.info/en/forum/virtualbox-non-free-software > > Has anyone else a clearer picture about that? Hello Bj=C3=B6rn, see this for a clearer picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watcom_C/C%2B%2B#License_considerations especially: The Open Source Initiative has approved the license as open source, but Debian, Fedora and the Free Software Foundation have rejected it because "It requires you to publish the source code publicly whenever you =E2=80=9CDeploy=E2=80=9D the covered software, and =E2=80=9CDeploy=E2= =80=9D is defined to include many kinds of private use. This is the compiler used for building the BIOS in virtualbox. Therefore it cannot be built using free software, so it is considered non-free. Best regards, g_bor > > Bj=C3=B6rn