From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52800) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WYe7x-0006ZY-Bi for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:16:36 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WYe7q-0007Sf-K6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:16:29 -0400 Message-ID: <53481554.3020900@suse.de> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 18:16:20 +0200 From: Alexander Graf MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1394723588-6072-1-git-send-email-tommusta@gmail.com> <53480AE6.5010304@suse.de> <53481464.4010003@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53481464.4010003@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [RFC 00/12] target-ppc: Decimal Floating Point List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Tom Musta , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org 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