From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:42543) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h3Emz-0002TC-Ts for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 11 Mar 2019 02:51:58 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h3EdU-0000Hf-2S for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 11 Mar 2019 02:42:08 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:57826) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h3EdT-0000FV-Np for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 11 Mar 2019 02:42:08 -0400 References: <3246431b-8d6e-f2bc-e0f0-99d80384d97b@redhat.com> <87r2bevglf.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> From: Thomas Huth Message-ID: Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 07:42:01 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87r2bevglf.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] converting build system to Meson? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Markus Armbruster , Paolo Bonzini Cc: qemu-devel , Peter Maydell , =?UTF-8?Q?Marc-Andr=c3=a9_Lureau?= , Richard Henderson On 10/03/2019 17.28, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Paolo Bonzini writes: > >> Hi all, >> >> lately I have been thinking of converting the QEMU build system to >> Meson. Meson is a relatively new build system that can replace >> Autotools or hand-written Makefiles such as QEMU; as a die-hard >> Autotools fan, I must say that Meson is by far better than anything else >> that has ever tried to replace Autotools, and actually has the potential >> to do so. >> >> Advantages of Meson that directly matter for QEMU include: > [...] >> - ease of distributing a full copy of Meson to support distros that ship >> an older version (no dependencies apart from Python 3.5). At 40000 >> lines of Python, Meson is relatively small. > > Meson is licensed under the Apache 2 license. QEMU as a whole is > licensed under GPLv2 (and no later versions). From > : > > This is a free software license, compatible with version 3 of the > GNU GPL. > > Please note that this license is not compatible with GPL version 2, > because it has some requirements that are not in that GPL version. > These include certain patent termination and indemnification > provisions. The patent termination provision is a good thing, which > is why we recommend the Apache 2.0 license for substantial programs > over other lax permissive licenses. > > Can we distribute Meson along with QEMU anyway? Sure, as long as we make it clear that it is a separate executable (with its own license), and do not link the meson code into the QEMU binary. Thomas