From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BixGf-0002yw-0F for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2004 11:26:29 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BixGd-0002yL-Ev for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2004 11:26:27 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BixGd-0002y4-9N for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2004 11:26:27 -0400 Received: from [194.90.9.27] (helo=mxout4.netvision.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BixE3-000544-6S for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2004 11:23:47 -0400 Received: from [10.0.0.150] ([212.235.101.134]) by mxout4.netvision.net.il (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003)) with ESMTPA id <0I0L00039C3J46@mxout4.netvision.net.il> for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2004 18:23:46 +0300 (IDT) Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 18:23:48 +0300 From: Hetz Ben Hamo Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] plugins In-reply-to: <20040709152559.A15902@bbland> Message-id: <40F00A04.4060406@witch.dyndns.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <40ED8EF0.1040501@bellard.org> <40EF1357.1000600@witch.dyndns.org> <40EFD7E2.7000607@witch.dyndns.org> <20040709152559.A15902@bbland> 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 >>>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 dear, I would direct you to a previous project of Fabrice - FFMPEG, which Fabrice clearly indicated that he would be delight if closed source project would also use the FFMPEG (Macromedia for example already using it) and thats why he changed FFMPEG to LGPL license... So I think that it would be logical from Fabrice to change the hardware parts license to LGPL or something like that. Fabrice, whats your opinion? Thanks, Hetz