From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: "libvir-list@redhat.com" <libvir-list@redhat.com>,
QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] JSON license is non-free - how are we affected?
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 17:58:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FBBB795.6080308@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FBBB5ED.1080408@redhat.com>
Il 22/05/2012 17:51, Eric Blake ha scritto:
> Is the JSON license only applicable to code downloaded from json.org,
> but not to the actual JSON language specification?
Yes, of course. I think not even Oracle disagrees.
> If so, does that
> mean that a clean-room implementation of JSON (the language
> specification) can be written with different license than JSON (the
> license), and that such alternate code could then be linked into qemu?
That is what we did, in fact.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-22 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-22 15:51 [Qemu-devel] JSON license is non-free - how are we affected? Eric Blake
2012-05-22 15:58 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2012-05-22 16:56 ` Eric Blake
2012-05-22 17:05 ` Anthony Liguori
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