From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55808) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X07YH-0005rU-3q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2014 07:09:19 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X07Y7-00046w-QQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2014 07:09:13 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:39861 helo=mx2.suse.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X07Y7-00046W-Jj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2014 07:09:03 -0400 Message-ID: <53ABFF4D.6000107@suse.de> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 13:09:01 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBGw6RyYmVy?= MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] HQEMU :Violations of the GPLLicenses? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Lb peace , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Peter Maydell Hi, Am 25.06.2014 16:05, schrieb Lb peace: > Efficient and retargetable dynamic binary translation on multicores > Author:Ding-Yong Hong; Jan-Jan Wu; Pen-Chung Yew; Wei-Chung Hsu; > Chun-Chen Hsu; Pangfeng Liu; Chien-Min Wang; Yeh-Ching Chung > IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems > DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2013.56 =20 > Year: March 2014 =20 >=20 > -------- > As mentioned in this article=EF=BC=8CHQEMU is based on QEMU,which is re= alesd > under the GPL license.But you cannot find any line of its source codes. > Is this group=E2=80=98s behavior a violation of the GPL Licenses? In general, if you want legal advice, talk to lawyers. :) You're unlikely to find any on a development mailing list. But you can read through the GPL version 2.0 yourself, in particular section 3: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html So, before you ask about GPL "violations", have you simply contacted them by email and asked nicely whether they will provide you with the sources matching that paper? As Peter says, if you don't have the binaries, you have no legal right under the GPL to obtain the sources of random software, but they might still do so. At least my former university used to share its GPL sources for the benefit of paper verification and (getting referenced by) follow-up projects, be it on proceedings CDs or via download. Regards, Andreas --=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