From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LJxY2-000053-Ei for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:03:46 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LJxXz-0008UU-Il for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:03:45 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47426 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LJxXz-0008UL-8o for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:03:43 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:60447) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LJxXy-00012y-KV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:03:42 -0500 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] ident=stefan) by flocke.weilnetz.de with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LJxXv-0000e8-V3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:03:39 +0100 Message-ID: <496283BB.80008@mail.berlios.de> Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:03:39 +0100 From: Stefan Weil MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Merging improvements from VirtualBox OSE into qemu? References: <49522F8D.4000203@turnkeylinux.org> <495253E1.3090209@codemonkey.ws> <200901052212.06947.frank.mehnert@sun.com> In-Reply-To: <200901052212.06947.frank.mehnert@sun.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 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 Frank Mehnert schrieb: > On Wednesday 24 December 2008, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> Some of their most interesting changes (like SATA emulation, rewritten >> USB emulation) remain available only in their closed source version. I >> find that extremely unfortunate because that would be some of the >> easiest and most useful code to try to merge from their project. > > Some of these parts might be available under GPL in the future. > > Kind regards, > > Frank Remote desktop (RDP) is also an interesting part of the closed source version. Maybe you consider to put it under GPL, too. Kind regards, Stefan