From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CYtca-0003Jq-9S for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:03:48 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CYtcZ-0003JT-LG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:03:47 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CYtcZ-0003JH-Dz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:03:47 -0500 Received: from [216.254.0.203] (helo=mail3.speakeasy.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CYtT7-00070m-NK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:54:01 -0500 Received: from dsl081-088-222.lax1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO [192.168.111.2]) ([64.81.88.222]) (envelope-sender ) by mail3.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 29 Nov 2004 21:54:00 -0000 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] iemulator From: "John R. Hogerhuis" In-Reply-To: <41AB9BD2.8080707@dblab.ece.ntua.gr> References: <255DFC56-4244-11D9-8EB4-000A959CB196@alum.mit.edu> <41AB9BD2.8080707@dblab.ece.ntua.gr> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1101765254.1658.2377.camel@aragorn> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:54:15 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: jhoger@pobox.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 13:59, Elefterios Stamatogiannakis wrote: > But info@applebuzz.com does not exist. > > Somebody should explain to them what the GPL means, but without > contact information this cannot happen. Have they violated the GPL yet? For that to happen, someone has to have the binary distributed to them (for example, you could buy a copy). That's when the GPL kicks in, since you can ask for a copy of the GPLed portions of the sourcebase, and they have to give it to you. That said, if they don't give it up, you wouldn't have any standing to take them to court since you don't own the copyright. The author would have to initiate legal action. But at this point it's not clear to me anything is legally wrong yet. Morally/ethically however, I'd like to see them be more up front about the fact that they are selling a packaged QEMU+frontend, rather than just a brief mention in the FAQ. -- John.