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To: Kai Meyer <kai.meyer@storagecraft.com>
Cc: Nate Bushman <Nate.Bushman@storagecraft.com>, Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>, Artyom Tarasenko <atar4qemu@gmail.com>

Il 17/05/2012 19:53, Kai Meyer ha scritto:
>> Morally it's wrong, but a copyright holder cannot stop you on
>> moral grounds.  Legally, you should consult a lawyer.
> What you say is morally wrong here is a bit ambiguous to me. Do you
> mean using modified versions of qemu internally at StorageCraft is
> morally wrong?

No, it's fine.  Internally you can do whatever you want.

> Or do you mean that a run-time linking version would not be in 
> violation of the GPL legally, but it would be morally wrong?

I cannot answer about the legal part; it's possible that it's legal but
anyway you should listen to a lawyer's opinion and not mine.

Anthony explained that, at least for him, it would be morally wrong.
Other people's mileage may vary.

Paolo