Re: [Qemu-devel] Implementing 9p for Windows host

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

Michael Fritscher <michael.fritscher@telematik-zentrum.de> writes:

> Hello Greg,
>
> thanks for your answer! Yes, I already jumped in - I was surprised how
> fast it went. I was afraid of much bigger problems ;-) I've a already
> a V2 nearly ready :-) As a teaser: Fixed read/write support and the
> possibility to execute binaries from the mountpoint.
>
> Yes, I decided not to copy the 9p-local.c, because I had to change not
> as many places I thought in the first place.
>
> I'm wondering about the xattr stuff... Perhaps I try to remove the
> <sys/xattr.h> from hw/9pfs/9p-xattr.h and #ifdef the things which are
> broken afterwards. That would have the advantage that I don't have to
> have local function stubs in the 9p-local.c anymore.
>
> To the licence: I asked because I know that other projects have a
> formal process to cope with this - like a written agreement to be
> bound to the license.

We don't do formal CLAs.  Instead, we follow the kernel's lead and
require Signed-off-by.
http://wiki.qemu-project.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch#Patch_emails_must_include_a_Signed-off-by:_line

Please stick to GPLv2+ for new work, unless you have a really good
reason not to.
http://wiki.qemu-project.org/License