From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:34943) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RFo9y-00037A-Ql for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:27:23 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RFo9w-00007G-P0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:27:22 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:44645) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RFo9w-000071-8L for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:27:20 -0400 Message-ID: <4E9C3B42.2070000@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:27:14 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1318213565-3268-1-git-send-email-jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> <1318213565-3268-7-git-send-email-jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> <4E9C0746.3030509@suse.de> <4E9C21C0.5070102@us.ibm.com> <4E9C249D.3080509@redhat.com> <4E9C38F5.2060803@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: <4E9C38F5.2060803@codemonkey.ws> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] GPLv3 troubles List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: Anthony Liguori , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Blue Swirl , Max Filippov , Avi Kivity , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_F=E4rber?= On 10/17/2011 04:17 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> >> License fragmentation with respect to the de facto standard toolchain >> (binutils) >> is wrong. > > Fragmentation with respect to the de factor standard kernel (Linux) is > wrong. We currently pull in code (mostly headers, although not exclusively) > from Linux too. That puts us between a rock and a hard place. We are a userspace package, though, and kernel headers are not copyrightable. Unlike perf we do not define APIs, we're just a consumer even for KVM (by design!). And when something we pull in is not headers (no example comes to mind), the copyright holder is quite often one of two well-known employers. Paolo