From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FTKf3-0007rd-0g for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:20:09 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FTKf0-0007qG-Vc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:20:08 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FTKf0-0007q8-J3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:20:06 -0400 Received: from [199.45.160.85] (helo=harmony.bsdimp.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FTKjt-0006xl-O9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:25:10 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:19:20 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20060411.091920.95895377.imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] why is kqemu closed? From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <443BC6FE.7090607@softax.com.pl> References: <443A8033.9000409@win4lin.com> <443BC6FE.7090607@softax.com.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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, Sebastian.Kaliszewski@softax.com.pl In message: <443BC6FE.7090607@softax.com.pl> Sebastian Kaliszewski writes: : andrzej zaborowski wrote: : > Now, whether using kqemu together with a linux kernel will still be : > legal is a different issue, but here the question is whether the user : > is breaking the law, not the author. : > : : And then GPL explicitly allows user to do anything (s)he wishes, including : (but not limited to) linking with closed source software, incorporating into : closed source software, etc. until resultant binary is used "internally" : (i.e. is not spread further). I think that you ment to say "so long as the" rather than "until" here. Warner