On 21 May 2014 08:51, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> 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
Some float-to-int conversions, comparisons, chs, abs. > 750afe93fd15fafc20b6c34d30f339547d15c2d1 Trivial bulk change of 'flag' and 'char' return types to 'int'. > Jocelyn Mayer > 75d62a585629cdc1ae0d530189653cb1d8d9c53c uint64_to_float32() and uint64_to_float64() would need redoing -- the rest have been completely rewritten or deleted. > Thiemo Seufer's parents (Stefan said he'd contact them) > 5a6932d51d1b34b68b3f10fc5ac65598bece88c0 SNAN_BIT_IS_ONE support. > 924b2c07cdfaba9ac408fc5fa77da75a570f9dc5 Trivial fixes to a few busted prototypes. > b645bb48850fea8db017026897827f0ab42fbdea Also SNAN_BIT_IS_ONE support. > fc81ba536bc3d8cdbcf9e92369e9bc5ede69da10 fc81ba5 is changes to code which has been deleted since. I think we could, if we had to, rewrite those pieces. It would be nice if we could at least get an ack from Fabrice though. thanks -- PMM
