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From: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: Joelle van Dyne <j@getutm.app>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/10] meson: option to build as shared library
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 08:51:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201013075104.GA70612@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201012232939.48481-5-j@getutm.app>

On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 04:29:33PM -0700, Joelle van Dyne wrote:
> From: osy <osy86@users.noreply.github.com>
> 
> On iOS, we cannot fork() new processes, so the best way to load QEMU into an
> app is through a shared library. We add a new configure option
> `--enable-shared-lib` that will build the bulk of QEMU into a shared lib.
> The usual executables will then link to the library.

Note that QEMU as a combined work is licensed GPLv2-only, so if an app is
linking to it as a shared library, the application's license has to be
GPLv2 compatible. I fear that shipping as a shared library is an easy way
for apps to get into a license violating situation without realizing.

Regards,
Daniel
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  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-13  7:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-12 23:29 [PATCH 00/10] iOS and Apple Silicon host support Joelle van Dyne
2020-10-12 23:29 ` [PATCH 01/10] configure: option to disable host block devices Joelle van Dyne
2020-10-12 23:29 ` [PATCH 02/10] configure: cross-compiling without cross_prefix Joelle van Dyne
2020-10-12 23:29 ` [PATCH 03/10] qemu: add support for iOS host Joelle van Dyne
2020-10-12 23:29 ` [PATCH 04/10] meson: option to build as shared library Joelle van Dyne
2020-10-13  7:51   ` Daniel P. Berrangé [this message]
2020-10-13 14:41     ` BALATON Zoltan via
2020-10-13 14:46       ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-10-13 15:16         ` Joelle van Dyne
2020-10-13 15:57           ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-10-13 16:40             ` BALATON Zoltan via
2020-10-14 16:09               ` Joelle van Dyne
2020-10-13 15:23         ` BALATON Zoltan via
2020-10-12 23:29 ` [PATCH 05/10] slirp: update for iOS resolv fix Joelle van Dyne
2020-10-13 13:32   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-10-13 14:38     ` Marc-André Lureau
2020-10-13 14:59       ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-10-14 15:54         ` Joelle van Dyne
2020-10-12 23:29 ` [PATCH 06/10] coroutine: add libucontext as external library Joelle van Dyne
2020-10-13 13:31   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-10-13 14:49     ` BALATON Zoltan via
2020-10-13 15:25       ` Joelle van Dyne
2020-10-13 16:18       ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-10-12 23:29 ` [PATCH 07/10] tcg: implement bulletproof JIT Joelle van Dyne
2020-10-13  8:22   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-10-13 14:58   ` BALATON Zoltan via
2020-10-14 16:03     ` Joelle van Dyne
2020-10-14 20:35       ` Richard Henderson
2020-10-14 20:54         ` BALATON Zoltan via
2020-10-14 21:40           ` Richard Henderson
2020-10-14 20:58         ` Joelle van Dyne
2020-10-14 21:08           ` BALATON Zoltan via
2020-10-14 21:49           ` Richard Henderson
2020-10-14 22:54             ` Joelle van Dyne
2020-10-12 23:29 ` [PATCH 08/10] tcg: mirror mapping RWX pages for iOS optional Joelle van Dyne
2020-10-13 13:52   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-10-13 15:10     ` Joelle van Dyne
2020-10-12 23:29 ` [PATCH 09/10] tcg: support JIT on Apple Silicon Joelle van Dyne
2020-10-13 13:55   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-10-13 14:09     ` Peter Maydell
2020-10-13 15:13       ` Joelle van Dyne
2020-10-12 23:29 ` [PATCH 10/10] block: check availablity for preadv/pwritev on mac Joelle van Dyne
2020-10-13  1:21 ` [PATCH 00/10] iOS and Apple Silicon host support no-reply
2020-10-13  2:12   ` Joelle van Dyne

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