From: Reza Jelveh <reza.jelveh@tuhh.de>
To: Andrew Fish <afish@apple.com>
Cc: edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
qemu devel list <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [edk2] license for binary drivers
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 00:22:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140806222234.GH2170@masterlulz.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <750D5743-32CA-4AFA-98ED-A9B677FFA108@apple.com>
On 06/08/14 14:51, Andrew Fish wrote:
> How you write a GPL licensed FAT driver seems like a legal quagmire. Probably something better discussed with a lawyer. From the outside looking in it seems like the IP rights are enforced by charging licensing fees to devices that support FAT. So free can still cost you….
This is about whether a Hfs driver under the GPL is acceptable not about the
FAT driver really. And about how legal it is to bundle these in a firmware.
The question arises because I want to know how legal it is to bundle these
things together along with Qemu
Thanks,
Reza
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-06 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2014-08-06 10:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [edk2] license for binary drivers Laszlo Ersek
2014-08-06 13:44 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-08-06 21:51 ` Andrew Fish
2014-08-06 22:22 ` Reza Jelveh [this message]
2014-08-07 12:53 ` Paolo Bonzini
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