Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU license problem (was [PATCH v3] Drop --whole-archive and static libraries)

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 03/06/2010 05:33 AM, Stefan Weil wrote:
> Blue Swirl schrieb:
>    
>> Thanks, applied.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Andreas Färber
>> <andreas.faerber@web.de>  wrote:
>>      
>>> From: Andreas Färber<afaerber@opensolaris.org>
>>>
>>> Juan has contributed a cool Makefile infrastructure that enables us
>>> to drop
>>> static libraries completely:
>>>
>>> Move shared obj-y definitions to Makefile.objs, prefixed
>>> {common-,hw-,user-},
>>> and link those object files directly into the executables.
>>>
>>> Replace HWLIB by HWDIR, specifying only the directory.
>>>
>>> Drop --whole-archive and ARLIBS in Makefiles and configure.
>>>
>>> Drop GENERATED_HEADERS dependency in rules.mak, since this rebuilds all
>>> common objects after generating a target-specific header; add dependency
>>> rules to Makefile and Makefile.target instead.
>>>
>>> v2:
>>> - Don't try to include /config.mak for user emulators
>>> - Changes to user object paths ("Quickfix for libuser.a drop") were
>>> obsoleted
>>>   by "user_only: compile everything with -fpie" (Kirill A. Shutemov)
>>>
>>> v3:
>>> - Fix dependency modelling for tools
>>> - Remove comment on GENERATED_HEADERS obsoleted by this patch
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber<afaerber@opensolaris.org>
>>> Cc: Blue Swirl<blauwirbel@gmail.com>
>>> Cc: Palle Lyckegaard<palle@lyckegaard.dk>
>>> Cc: Ben Taylor<bentaylor.solx86@gmail.com>
>>> Cc: Juan Quintela<quintela@trasno.org>
>>> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov<kirill@shutemov.name>
>>> Cc: Paolo Bonzini<pbonzini@redhat.com>
>>> ---
>>>   Makefile        |  138 +++++-------------------------------------------
>>>   Makefile.hw     |   33 +-----------
>>>   Makefile.objs   |  155
>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>   Makefile.target |   33 +++++++++---
>>>   Makefile.user   |    9 +---
>>>   configure       |   34 +------------
>>>   rules.mak       |    4 +-
>>>   7 files changed, 202 insertions(+), 204 deletions(-)
>>>   create mode 100644 Makefile.objs
>>>
>>>        
> Removing libqemu.a was technically ok, but throws a license problem:
>    

Every file contains a copyright/license.  The statement in the top level 
is just a statement of intention.  It's to make sure that people do not 
introduce GPL'd code into libqemu.a.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori