Bug 476878 – bochs-dlxlinux RPM ships pre-built disk-image of linux kernel + shell tools with no source code

Bug 476878 - bochs-dlxlinux RPM ships pre-built disk-image of linux kernel + shell tools with no source code

Summary:	bochs-dlxlinux RPM ships pre-built disk-image of linux kernel + shell tools w...

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	bochs (Show other bugs)
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Version:	9
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Hans de Goede
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Blocks:	FE-Legal
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Reported:	2008-12-17 12:22 EST by Daniel Berrange
Modified:	2008-12-18 06:12 EST (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2008-12-18 06:12:38 EST
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Description Daniel Berrange 2008-12-17 12:22:09 EST

Description of problem:
The bochs-dlxlinux RPM contains a file

/usr/share/bochs/dlxlinux/hd10meg.img.gz

which is a bootable disk image containing Linux (ancient 1.3.89 !) and a collection of userspace tools (grep, awk, tar, etc, etc). 

There does not appear to be any source for for these binaries. CVS appears to get them pre-built from the file dlxlinux4.tar.gz, again with no source present. The website listed in the README of dlxlinux4.tar.gz does not appear to exist anymore.

This all seems questionable from a license compliance point of view.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
bochs-dlxlinux-2.3.6-3.fc9.i386.rpm

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Comment 1 Tom "spot" Callaway 2008-12-17 12:32:15 EST

Is this useful? I think this needs to go.

Comment 2 Hans de Goede 2008-12-18 06:12:38 EST

Ok, since this is obviously a licensing problem, and since there is no way to fix this I've removed the dlxlinux subpackage.

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