From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
To: Tom Musta <tommusta@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [RFC 00/12] target-ppc: Decimal Floating Point
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 18:16:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53481554.3020900@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53481464.4010003@gmail.com>
On 11.04.14 18:12, Tom Musta wrote:
> On 4/11/2014 10:31 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> I don't think this is possible. Libdecnumber is GPLv3+ code while QEMU overall is licensed at GPLv2 only. Gotta love licenses...
>>
>> Is there an older, GPLv2 licensed version available?
> Interesting timing .... I was just about to put out a complete patch set for all of DFP.
>
> In earlier feedback, Richard had suggested that I go further upstream inside of IBM ... which I did.
> But of course, that is also GPLv3.
>
> The original copy comes from here : http://spelotrove.com/decimal/#decNumber which was published with
> something called the ICU 1.8.1 license. I am not at all familiar with that license.
>
> Looks like I'm going to have to "lawyer up" :)
Yes, please do. I'm sure IBM has plenty lawyers who are happy to help
out here :).
Alex
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-13 15:12 [Qemu-devel] [RFC 00/12] target-ppc: Decimal Floating Point Tom Musta
2014-03-13 15:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 01/12] target-ppc: Introduce libdecnumber Code Tom Musta
2014-03-13 15:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 02/12] target-ppc: Prepare libdecnumber for QEMU include structure Tom Musta
2014-03-13 15:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 03/12] target-ppc: Modify dconfig.h to Integrate with QEMU Tom Musta
2014-03-13 15:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 04/12] target-ppc: Change gstdint.h to stdint.h Tom Musta
2014-03-13 15:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 05/12] target-ppc: Eliminate redundant declarations Tom Musta
2014-03-13 15:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 06/12] target-ppc: Eliminate Unused Variable in decSetSubnormal Tom Musta
2014-03-13 15:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 07/12] target-ppc: Enable Building of libdecnumber Tom Musta
2014-03-13 15:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 08/12] target-ppc: Define FPR Pointer Type for Helpers Tom Musta
2014-03-13 15:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 09/12] target-ppc: Introduce Translation Macros for DFP Arithmetic Forms Tom Musta
2014-03-13 15:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 10/12] target-ppc: Introduce DFP Helper Utilities Tom Musta
2014-03-13 15:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 11/12] target-ppc: Introduce DFP Post Processor Utilities Tom Musta
2014-03-13 15:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 12/12] target-ppc: Introduce DFP Add Tom Musta
2014-04-11 15:31 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [RFC 00/12] target-ppc: Decimal Floating Point Alexander Graf
2014-04-11 16:12 ` Tom Musta
2014-04-11 16:16 ` Alexander Graf [this message]
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