On 10/03/2019 17.28, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> 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 > <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#apache2>: > > 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
