Re: [Qemu-devel] fpu/softfloat.c licensing

[Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>]

On 06/03/2014 09:42 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 3 June 2014 12:38, Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> wrote:
>> On 06/03/2014 07:45 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> On 3 June 2014 04:52, Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> wrote:
>>>> Is there anything I can do to help with this? Chase someone down? :)
>>>
>>> Confirming that your lawyers are happy with the approach
>>> Anthony proposed to take to fixing this would probably
>>> be useful :-)
>>
>> Let me refresh. Anthony suggested this -
>> http://marc.info/?l=qemu-devel&m=136725946312880&w=4
>>
>> To complete this, we need ack from a lot of people and three of them (
>> Fabrice Bellard, Jocelyn Mayer, Thiemo Seufer) have not ack'ed yet so we
>> either have to revert their changes (mwahaha) or we are stuck here.
> 
> Essentially, yes. In particular it's not clear to me
> exactly how "clean room" our reimplementation of the
> bits of code we need to revert and rewrite has to be.
> 
> Also is it sufficient to say "I started with the -2a
> codebase and applied a lot of patches to it, and ended
> up with a git commit which looks like "just change the
> comment style", or does our git history really need to
> look like "remove the -2b code, apply the -2a code,
> reapply intervening changes"?  The former has the
> benefit of not breaking bisection, but if you look
> at the commit it looks a bit odd that we can remove
> the -2b licensing taint without actually touching most
> of the lines of code in the files...

Our lawyers refused to provide any public advise on this :-/

Is that it, end of story? :)



-- 
Alexey