Re: [Qemu-devel] Publicating with QEMU

[Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>]

Clemens Kolbitsch wrote:
> Hi guys!
> Short question: I'm having a speech at BlackHat Japan in Oktober about 
> something I made with qemu. Basically it is a new hardware type (so it is 
> just an additional file in the hw-subdirectory) --- it's the wireless device 
> I have been asking questions for a couple of months ago in case someone 
> remembers (there will be some code for you guys soon ;-) ).
> 
> For the conference CD, they want me to give them my code. Is it ok if i just 
> send them the whole qemu code I have here (I have only modified the Makefile 
> to include my hw/myfile.c) --- i just want to make sure that the version is 
> right and it compiles out of the box.

As a general note, if you have modifications which are useful to a wider
audience, consider to submit them as patches to this mailing list.

> Is that OK with the GPL stuff?? I include all the READMEs that come with QEMU 
> svn, and I don't claim to be the author of QEMU or anything. Just want to do 
> it correctly ;-)

Yes, that's fine. (You can check for yourself, the GPL isn't as
incomprehensible as some other software licenses.)

> Any advice, comments, etc.?

Make sure to mark your version as a modified one, so people come to you
when they have questions, and don't ask us about bugs/features we never
heard of. :-)


Thiemo