From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BVHg4-00010r-P6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2004 18:24:12 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BVHg1-0000wV-In for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2004 18:24:12 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BVHg1-0000wO-Ga for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2004 18:24:09 -0400 Received: from [81.209.184.159] (helo=dd2718.kasserver.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BVHfb-0003W4-J6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2004 18:23:43 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.7] (dsl-082-083-135-001.arcor-ip.net [82.83.135.1]) by dd2718.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10BEB1E494 for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2004 00:22:00 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <40BD01FB.4020407@fabianowski.de> Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 00:23:55 +0200 From: Jan Fabianowski MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] VGA BIOS source code References: <200405312200.03734.bobb@absamail.co.za> <40BB92D1.6040508@fabianowski.de> <200405312114.08329.kyle@silverbeach.net> <40BC18B6.9040300@fabianowski.de> <20040601124418.E25801@edinburgh.cisco.com> <40BCC56D.9050604@fabianowski.de> <40BCFA50.4010702@dad-answers.com> In-Reply-To: <40BCFA50.4010702@dad-answers.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed 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 > I hardly think that emulating a 5+ years chip would make them angry. > After all, it's a free publicity for them (and zero work, all drivers > are already outside).. The technical types at Cirrus most likely don't care and might actually be happy if their work from five years ago lives on. The people I was thinking about are the legal types. Those people tend to think in very strange ways that I never really understand. I wouldn't be surprised if for some weird reason some Cirrus Logic lawyer actually would mind. I am quite curious as to what the legal situation is, but I don't have the money to ask a lawyer ;). - Bartosz