On 05/21/2014 05:51 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 21/05/2014 05:54, Alexey Kardashevskiy ha scritto: >> Hi! >> >> We recently discovered that not entire QEMU is GPL2-compatible, the fpu >> emulation has a different license (copied below) which might create legal >> problems because of that "INDEMNIFY" statement. >> >> Does anyone else care (except IBM)? >> >> What would the proper solution be? Ask the creator to relicense it under >> GPL? I failed to find a contact as the homepage on berkeley.edu is >> restricted. Rewrite the code? This code is used in FPU emulation for TCG, >> is that the only use of it? If it should not get called for KVM, that would >> be a temporary band-aid for us :) > > http://marc.info/?l=qemu-devel&m=136725946312880&w=4 > > The following people haven't acked the relicensing of their contributions > from softfloat-2b to softfloat-2a or GPLv2+ yet: > > Fabrice Bellard <fabr...@bellard.org> > 1d6bda356153c82e100680d9f2165e32c8fb1330 > 750afe93fd15fafc20b6c34d30f339547d15c2d1 > > Jocelyn Mayer > 75d62a585629cdc1ae0d530189653cb1d8d9c53c > > Thiemo Seufer's parents (Stefan said he'd contact them) > 5a6932d51d1b34b68b3f10fc5ac65598bece88c0 > 924b2c07cdfaba9ac408fc5fa77da75a570f9dc5 > b645bb48850fea8db017026897827f0ab42fbdea > fc81ba536bc3d8cdbcf9e92369e9bc5ede69da10 > > This list only includes people whose contributions has not been reverted in > the meanwhile.
Wow. People definitely care, a lot :) Thanks for the link and info! -- Alexey
