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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] fpu/softfloat.c licensing
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Il 21/05/2014 05:54, Alexey Kardashevskiy ha scritto:
> Hi!
>
> We recently discovered that not entire QEMU is GPL2-compatible, the fpu
> emulation has a different license (copied below) which might create legal
> problems because of that "INDEMNIFY" statement.
>
> Does anyone else care (except IBM)?
>
> What would the proper solution be? Ask the creator to relicense it under
> GPL? I failed to find a contact as the homepage on berkeley.edu is
> restricted. Rewrite the code? This code is used in FPU emulation for TCG,
> is that the only use of it? If it should not get called for KVM, that would
> be a temporary band-aid for us :)

http://marc.info/?l=qemu-devel&m=136725946312880&w=4

The following people haven't acked the relicensing of their 
contributions from softfloat-2b to softfloat-2a or GPLv2+ yet:

Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
	1d6bda356153c82e100680d9f2165e32c8fb1330
	750afe93fd15fafc20b6c34d30f339547d15c2d1

Jocelyn Mayer
	75d62a585629cdc1ae0d530189653cb1d8d9c53c

Thiemo Seufer's parents (Stefan said he'd contact them)
	5a6932d51d1b34b68b3f10fc5ac65598bece88c0
	924b2c07cdfaba9ac408fc5fa77da75a570f9dc5
	b645bb48850fea8db017026897827f0ab42fbdea
	fc81ba536bc3d8cdbcf9e92369e9bc5ede69da10

This list only includes people whose contributions has not been reverted 
in the meanwhile.

Paolo