[Qemu-devel] QEMU License and proprietary hardware

["Armbrost Failsafe" <armbrost@gmail.com>]

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We are looking into using QEMU as the base for a model of a custom system
featuring some custom ASICs. But licensing issues are halting the process
right now. Does anyone know what happens license-wise if we create a model
of proprietary hardware using QEMU? Is that model automatically covered by
the GPL and thus we have to give to anyone who asks about it? It is clear
that if we keep it internal, it is OK. But anyone outside of our
organization is to use it, shouldn't they automatically be entitled to
receive the entire source of QEMU, including our models of proprietary
devices? Even if these are developed from scratch without using any existing
source code for devices?

/armbrost

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