[Qemu-devel] Re: Sponsorship for QEMU Developers...

[Robert Wittams <robert@wittams.com>]

Leonardo E. Reiter wrote:
> Robert,
> 
> http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/license.html
> 
> Specifically:
> 
> The following points clarify the QEMU licenses:
> 
>     * The QEMU virtual CPU core library (libqemu.a) and the QEMU PC 
> system emulator are released under the GNU Lesser General Public License.
> 
> The Linux user mode QEMU emulator is the only GPL'd bit.  We do not 
> enable that.
> 
> Let me state my intentions again: we want to do everything we can to 
> sponsor QEMU to make it better and keep it free.  We are not interested 
> in stealing its code and selling it.  The closed-source value added 
> functionality that we sell is entirely home-grown, and we have taken all 
> the precautions necessary to avoid contamination.  We would also like to 
> contribute significantly ourselves in the form of code.  For example, a 
> patch that converts the QEMU library and PC emulator into a shared 
> library could be useful for many other projects, not just Win4Lin. While 
> we don't expect Fabrice to admit it officially, we will certainly offer 
> it to the community.  Like that piece, there will be others as well.
> 
> - Leo Reiter

Ah fine. Sorry, I was misled by your strange "we don't use the header 
files" justification. I have no idea why you are doing all that if all 
the bits you are linking to are LGPL.