From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:57164) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UXaW3-0002QQ-5E for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 01 May 2013 13:08:30 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UXaVy-0002Aa-0p for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 01 May 2013 13:08:27 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:35200 helo=mx2.suse.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UXaVx-0002AO-NX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 01 May 2013 13:08:21 -0400 Message-ID: <51814C03.1040409@suse.de> Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 19:08:19 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBGw6RyYmVy?= MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1367258703-6930-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <1367258703-6930-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] softfloat: rebase to version 2a List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: qemu-devel Am 29.04.2013 20:05, schrieb Anthony Liguori: > N.B. If you are on CC, see after the '---' for a requested action! >=20 > The license of SoftFloat-2b is claimed to be GPLv2 incompatible by > the FSF due to an indemnification clause. The previous release, > SoftFloat-2a, did not contain this clause. The only changes between > these two versions as far as QEMU is concerned is the license change > and a global modification of the comment structure. This patch rebases > our softfloat code to SoftFloat-2a in order to have a GPLv2 compatible > license. >=20 > Please note, this is a comment-only change. The resulting binary shoul= d > be the same. >=20 > I created this patch using the following strategy: >=20 > 1) Create a branch using the original import of softfloat code: > $ git checkout 158142c2c2df728cfa3b5320c65534921a764f26 >=20 > 2) Remove carriage returns from Softfloat-2b >=20 > 3) Compare each of the softfloat files against Softfloat-2b using the > following mapping to generate Fabrice's original softfloat changes: >=20 > - fpu/softfloat.c -> softfloat/bits64/softfloat.c > - fpu/softfloat.h -> softfloat/bits64/386-Win32-gcc/softfloat.h > - fpu/softfloat-macros.h -> softfloat/bits64/softfloat-macros > - fpu/softfloat-specialize.h -> softfloat/bits64/386-Win32-gcc/softf= loat-specialize >=20 > 4) Replace our softfloat files with the corresponding files from Softfl= oat-2a >=20 > 5) Apply the diffs from (3) to (4) and commit >=20 > 6) Create a diff between (5) and 158142c2c2df728cfa3b5320c65534921a764f= 26 > - This diff consists 100% of licensing change + comment reformating >=20 > 7) Checkout the latest master branch, apply the diff from (6) > - There were a lot of comment rejects, confirmed this was only comme= nts > and then used an emacs macro to rewrite the comments to the Softfl= oat-2a > form. >=20 > Cc: Andreas F=C3=A4rber > Cc: Aurelien Jarno > Cc: Avi Kivity > Cc: Ben Taylor > Cc: Blue Swirl > Cc: Christophe Lyon > Cc: Fabrice Bellard > Cc: Guan Xuetao > Cc: Jocelyn Mayer > Cc: Juan Quintela > Cc: malc > Cc: Max Filippov > Cc: Paolo Bonzini > Cc: Paul Brook > Cc: Peter Maydell > Cc: Richard Henderson > Cc: Richard Sandiford > Cc: Stefan Weil > Cc: Thiemo Seufer > Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori > --- > In order to make this change, we need to relicense all contributions > from initial import of the SoftFloat code to match the license of > SoftFloat-2a (instead of the implied SoftFloat-2b license). >=20 > If you are on CC, it is because you have contributed to the softfloat > code in QEMU. Please response to this note with: >=20 > Acked-by: Your Name >=20 > To significant that you are able and willing to relicense your changes > to the SoftFloat-1a license (or a GPL compatible license). Including my pre-SUSE contributions, Acked-by: Andreas F=C3=A4rber for changing to SoftFloat-2a license. Thanks for looking into this, Andreas > Please respond no later than May 6th, 2013. If we are unable to confir= m > relicense from an author, changes from that author will be reverted. > --- > For completeness, here is the full listing of contributions: >=20 > Andreas F=C3=A4rber > be45f06 Silence softfloat warnings on OpenSolaris > 5aea4c5 softfloat: Replace uint16 type with uint_fast16_t > 94a49d8 softfloat: Replace int16 type with int_fast16_t > c969654 softfloat: Fix mixups of int and int16 > 38641f8 softfloat: Use uint16 consistently > 87b8cc3 softfloat: Resolve type mismatches between declaration and imp= lementation > 8d725fa softfloat: Prepend QEMU-style header with derivation notice > 9f8d2a0 softfloat: Use uint32 consistently > bb98fe4 softfloat: Drop [s]bits{8, 16, 32, 64} types in favor of [u]in= t{8, 16, 32, 64}_t >=20 [snip] --=20 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 N=C3=BCrnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imend=C3=B6rffer; HRB 16746 AG N=C3=BC= rnberg