From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BivQS-0004ZI-VY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2004 09:28:29 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BivQR-0004Z6-Bq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2004 09:28:28 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BivQR-0004Z3-96 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2004 09:28:27 -0400 Received: from [62.4.22.179] (helo=mail.bbrox.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BivO8-0005xh-73 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2004 09:26:04 -0400 Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 15:25:59 +0200 From: Lionel Ulmer Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] plugins Message-ID: <20040709152559.A15902@bbland> References: <40ED8EF0.1040501@bellard.org> <40EF1357.1000600@witch.dyndns.org> <40EFD7E2.7000607@witch.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40EFD7E2.7000607@witch.dyndns.org>; from hetz@witch.dyndns.org on Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 02:49:54PM +0300 Reply-To: 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 > With a plugin system (all it takes is 2 files: an text/XML file which > contains the info on this plugin, and a .so file which is the plugin > itself) both closed source and open source developers can add lots of > hardware to QEMU which can be used for driver development on Linux and > on Windows (as well other guest OS's) without having the real hardware. >>From what I know, QEMU is GPL'ed (only libqemu is LGPL'ed). So 'closed source' developers can use this plug-in mechanism ... only if they do not release their .so :-) Lionel -- Lionel Ulmer - http://www.bbrox.org/