From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45790) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wn27l-0000NE-Rw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2014 04:43:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wn27h-00075t-3Y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2014 04:43:45 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f46.google.com ([209.85.220.46]:41217) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wn27g-00075l-Ub for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2014 04:43:41 -0400 Received: by mail-pa0-f46.google.com with SMTP id kq14so1198256pab.19 for ; Wed, 21 May 2014 01:43:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <537C6737.3050809@ozlabs.ru> Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 18:43:35 +1000 From: Alexey Kardashevskiy MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <537C2358.3080201@ozlabs.ru> <537C5AE5.3080300@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <537C5AE5.3080300@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] fpu/softfloat.c licensing List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" Cc: Tom Musta , Michael Ranweiler , Paul Mackerras , Alex Graf On 05/21/2014 05:51 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 21/05/2014 05:54, Alexey Kardashevskiy ha scritto: >> Hi! >> >> We recently discovered that not entire QEMU is GPL2-compatible, the fpu >> emulation has a different license (copied below) which might create legal >> problems because of that "INDEMNIFY" statement. >> >> Does anyone else care (except IBM)? >> >> What would the proper solution be? Ask the creator to relicense it under >> GPL? I failed to find a contact as the homepage on berkeley.edu is >> restricted. Rewrite the code? This code is used in FPU emulation for TCG, >> is that the only use of it? If it should not get called for KVM, that would >> be a temporary band-aid for us :) > > http://marc.info/?l=qemu-devel&m=136725946312880&w=4 > > The following people haven't acked the relicensing of their contributions > from softfloat-2b to softfloat-2a or GPLv2+ yet: > > Fabrice Bellard > 1d6bda356153c82e100680d9f2165e32c8fb1330 > 750afe93fd15fafc20b6c34d30f339547d15c2d1 > > Jocelyn Mayer > 75d62a585629cdc1ae0d530189653cb1d8d9c53c > > Thiemo Seufer's parents (Stefan said he'd contact them) > 5a6932d51d1b34b68b3f10fc5ac65598bece88c0 > 924b2c07cdfaba9ac408fc5fa77da75a570f9dc5 > b645bb48850fea8db017026897827f0ab42fbdea > fc81ba536bc3d8cdbcf9e92369e9bc5ede69da10 > > This list only includes people whose contributions has not been reverted in > the meanwhile. Wow. People definitely care, a lot :) Thanks for the link and info! -- Alexey