[Qemu-devel] Query on the License of qemu

[박재민 <borninjm@gmail.com>]

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Dear All,
This is Jaemin Park, who delves into qemu.

I have 2 questions about the license of qemu.

1. Does it has any GPL issues to deploy a virtual machine, which runs a
proprietary operating system, on qemu?
  Qemu has GPL. A guest which runs on Qemu, has non-GPL. Is it OK to release
them together? We are going, of course, to open all of source codes related
to qemu, except the guest operating system.


2. Does it has any GPL issues to add virtual devices to qemu and add device
drivers to the guest proprietary operating system?
  We are going to add some peripheral devices to the qemu board. To work
with those devices, we are going to add device drivers to the proprietary
operating system. There are no linkage on source level between qemu and the
guest operating system. They communicates by handling interrupts and memory
map. We, however, are concerned about the interpretation of the GPL. If we
are obliged to open some of guest source codes, how can we interprete the
open range of the GPL?

Sincerely yours,
Jaemin Park.

-- 
Jaemin Park
"God is Love"

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