Re: [Qemu-devel] fpu/softfloat.c licensing

2014-08-04 Thread Peter Maydell
On 4 August 2014 12:12, Markus Armbruster wrote: > I'm afraid we need rip out the problematic patches. Here's Paolo's > list: > > Fabrice Bellard > 1d6bda356153c82e100680d9f2165e32c8fb1330 > 750afe93fd15fafc20b6c34d30f339547d15c2d1 > > Jocelyn Mayer > 75d62a585629cdc1ae0d

Re: [Qemu-devel] fpu/softfloat.c licensing

2014-08-04 Thread Markus Armbruster
Alexey Kardashevskiy writes: > On 08/04/2014 06:48 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 4 August 2014 05:55, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: >>> Our lawyers refused to provide any public advise on this :-/ >>> >>> Is that it, end of story? :) >> >> Well, I 'd still like to get the license fixed to at lea

Re: [Qemu-devel] fpu/softfloat.c licensing

2014-08-04 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
On 08/04/2014 06:48 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 4 August 2014 05:55, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: >> Our lawyers refused to provide any public advise on this :-/ >> >> Is that it, end of story? :) > > Well, I 'd still like to get the license fixed to at least my > personal satisfaction, but if y

Re: [Qemu-devel] fpu/softfloat.c licensing

2014-08-04 Thread Peter Maydell
On 4 August 2014 05:55, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > Our lawyers refused to provide any public advise on this :-/ > > Is that it, end of story? :) Well, I 'd still like to get the license fixed to at least my personal satisfaction, but if your lawyers won't confirm whether what we propose will w

Re: [Qemu-devel] fpu/softfloat.c licensing

2014-08-03 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
On 06/03/2014 09:42 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 3 June 2014 12:38, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: >> On 06/03/2014 07:45 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: >>> On 3 June 2014 04:52, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: Is there anything I can do to help with this? Chase someone down? :) >>> >>> Confirming that

Re: [Qemu-devel] fpu/softfloat.c licensing

2014-06-03 Thread Peter Maydell
On 3 June 2014 12:38, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > On 06/03/2014 07:45 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 3 June 2014 04:52, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: >>> Is there anything I can do to help with this? Chase someone down? :) >> >> Confirming that your lawyers are happy with the approach >> Anthony

Re: [Qemu-devel] fpu/softfloat.c licensing

2014-06-03 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
On 06/03/2014 07:45 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 3 June 2014 04:52, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: >> Is there anything I can do to help with this? Chase someone down? :) > > Confirming that your lawyers are happy with the approach > Anthony proposed to take to fixing this would probably > be usefu

Re: [Qemu-devel] fpu/softfloat.c licensing

2014-06-03 Thread Peter Maydell
On 3 June 2014 04:52, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > Is there anything I can do to help with this? Chase someone down? :) Confirming that your lawyers are happy with the approach Anthony proposed to take to fixing this would probably be useful :-) -- PMM

Re: [Qemu-devel] fpu/softfloat.c licensing

2014-06-02 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
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 wrote: >>> Il 21/05/2014 05:54, Alexey Kardashevskiy ha scritto: >>> Hi! We recently discovered that not entire QEMU is GPL2-compatible, the fpu emu

Re: [Qemu-devel] fpu/softfloat.c licensing

2014-05-21 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 21.05.2014 11:47, schrieb Peter Maydell: > On 21 May 2014 10:43, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> Alexander Graf writes: >>> How many % of the overall commits does that make? IIRC you can >>> relicense source code if the "majority of authors" agrees and nobody >>> actively disagrees - or so. But IA

Re: [Qemu-devel] fpu/softfloat.c licensing

2014-05-21 Thread Peter Maydell
On 21 May 2014 10:43, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Alexander Graf writes: >> How many % of the overall commits does that make? IIRC you can >> relicense source code if the "majority of authors" agrees and nobody >> actively disagrees - or so. But IANAL :) > > You can get away with infringing copyri

Re: [Qemu-devel] fpu/softfloat.c licensing

2014-05-21 Thread Markus Armbruster
Alexander Graf writes: > On 21.05.14 09:51, 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 >>> p

Re: [Qemu-devel] fpu/softfloat.c licensing

2014-05-21 Thread Alexander Graf
On 21.05.14 11:17, Peter Maydell wrote: On 21 May 2014 08:51, 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 prob

Re: [Qemu-devel] fpu/softfloat.c licensing

2014-05-21 Thread Peter Maydell
On 21 May 2014 08:51, 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 "INDEMN

Re: [Qemu-devel] fpu/softfloat.c licensing

2014-05-21 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
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 "INDEMNI

Re: [Qemu-devel] fpu/softfloat.c licensing

2014-05-21 Thread Alexander Graf
On 21.05.14 09:51, 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.

Re: [Qemu-devel] fpu/softfloat.c licensing

2014-05-21 Thread Paolo Bonzini
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 w

[Qemu-devel] fpu/softfloat.c licensing

2014-05-20 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
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 relicens