On 05/21/2014 07:25 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 21.05.14 11:17, Peter Maydell wrote: >> 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. > > Yeah - Fabrice, could you please take a quick minute and take a look at > this and possibly ack the original patch? > > http://marc.info/?l=qemu-devel&m=136725946312880&w=4 > > Thanks a lot!
Ping? Is there anything I can do to help with this? Chase someone down? :) -- Alexey
