From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D0KKY-0008DC-Vr for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 09:02:35 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D0KKU-0008Bk-Bg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 09:02:33 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0KCP-0005P7-MH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 08:54:09 -0500 Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1D0JsQ-0006gT-7w for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 08:33:30 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1D0JqB-0005yk-FX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:31:11 +0100 Received: from mailgate.antistream.com ([62.49.248.98]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:31:11 +0100 Received: from robert by mailgate.antistream.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:31:11 +0100 From: Robert Wittams Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:32:55 +0000 Message-ID: References: <200502121018.09039.jm@poure.com> <420DD7F8.5080805@wasp.net.au> <20050213001845.GA19429@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20050213001845.GA19429@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> Sender: news Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: FreeOSZoo will stop March 1, 2005 Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Jim C. Brown wrote: > 3) (This one is a long shot) There may be patent issues that prevent Fabrice > from releasing his source code. > If he didn't have a patent licence at all, it wouldn't make a difference if it were open source or not. It would still infringe on this hypothetical patent. If he had a patent licence which forbade disclosing source code, that would be very interesting... and kind of pointless given that patents require disclosure to get protection. But stupider things have happened. Tbh, I'd take Fabrice at face value, and accept that this is a way of getting payment for work that he wants to release under a Free licence. I'd say it was an implementation of the Street Performer Protocol : http://www.schneier.com/paper-street-performer.html I just wish the terms of release were less vague than "a gentle company decides to subsidy the QEMU project". We need a money value to be put on this, so a fund raising drive can be put together, both from distributions and other vendors (maybe via OSDL) and interested users. At the moment the requirement is just so up in the air that people don't know what to expect next. Robert