Re: [Qemu-devel] Binary package and the kqemu support.

2005-08-10 Thread Paul Brook
> Also, if he is distributing binaries where part of the binary is > LGPL'd or GPL'd code where the _copyright is held by other people_ > (i.e. contributors), then you can make a case that if he's > distributing kqemu-enabled binaries of qemu (that nobody else is able > to legally reproduce), he's

Re: [Qemu-devel] Binary package and the kqemu support.

2005-08-10 Thread Jamie Lokier
Paul Brook wrote: > > From http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-accel.html: > > > > Terms of Use > > The QEMU Accelerator is free to use, but it is a closed source > > proprietary product. You are not allowed to distribute it yourself to > > other people without an explicit authorisation. Dist

Re: [Qemu-devel] Binary package and the kqemu support.

2005-08-09 Thread Adrian Smarzewski
Paul Brook wrote: However the qemu 0.7.1 binaries distributed from the qemu website include kqemu support. This means you are entitled to kqemu.h (which is necessary to compile kqemu.c) under the LGPL. By distributing kqemu enabled qemu binaries Fabrice has implicitly dual-licenced kqemu.h un

Re: [Qemu-devel] Binary package and the kqemu support.

2005-08-09 Thread Fabrice Bellard
Piotr Roszatycki wrote: Please, release the kqemu/kqemu.h file on GPL license. It would allow to compile qemu binary with kqemu support and release the binary package freely. You can consider that the header file "kqemu.h" is released under the BSD license. I will make it clear in the next KQ

Re: [Qemu-devel] Binary package and the kqemu support.

2005-08-09 Thread Paul Brook
On Tuesday 09 August 2005 16:36, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Hi, > > Adrian Smarzewski wrote: > > Is kqemu license compatible with GPL? If the answer is "yes" there is > > no problem. Otherwise maybe people use it illegally? > > From http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-accel.html: > > Terms of

Re: [Qemu-devel] Binary package and the kqemu support.

2005-08-09 Thread Thomas Petazzoni
Hi, Adrian Smarzewski wrote: Is kqemu license compatible with GPL? If the answer is "yes" there is no problem. Otherwise maybe people use it illegally? From http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-accel.html: Terms of Use The QEMU Accelerator is free to use, but it is a closed source propr

Re: [Qemu-devel] Binary package and the kqemu support.

2005-08-09 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Adrian Smarzewski wrote: Piotr Roszatycki wrote: The qemu itself can be built with kqemu support and requires just a kqemu/kqemu.h file. Unfortunately, this file is non-free, so such binary couldn't be redistributable, even without prioprietary kernel module. Is kqemu lic

Re: [Qemu-devel] Binary package and the kqemu support.

2005-08-09 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Adrian Smarzewski wrote: > Piotr Roszatycki wrote: > > The qemu itself can be built with kqemu support and requires just a > > kqemu/kqemu.h file. Unfortunately, this file is non-free, so such binary > > couldn't be redistributable, even without prioprietary kernel module.

Re: [Qemu-devel] Binary package and the kqemu support.

2005-08-09 Thread Adrian Smarzewski
Piotr Roszatycki wrote: The qemu itself can be built with kqemu support and requires just a kqemu/kqemu.h file. Unfortunately, this file is non-free, so such binary couldn't be redistributable, even without prioprietary kernel module. Is kqemu licencse compatible with GPL? If the answer is "ye

Re: [Qemu-devel] Binary package and the kqemu support.

2005-08-09 Thread Adrian Smarzewski
Piotr Roszatycki wrote: The qemu itself can be built with kqemu support and requires just a kqemu/kqemu.h file. Unfortunately, this file is non-free, so such binary couldn't be redistributable, even without prioprietary kernel module. Is kqemu license compatible with GPL? If the answer is "yes

[Qemu-devel] Binary package and the kqemu support.

2005-08-09 Thread Piotr Roszatycki
Hi. Please, release the kqemu/kqemu.h file on GPL license. It would allow to compile qemu binary with kqemu support and release the binary package freely. Of course the kqemu binary kernel module is not free software, but the qemu detects if kqemu is available and can run without it. The kqemu