Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [RFC 00/12] target-ppc: Decimal Floating Point

2014-04-14 Thread Laurent Desnogues
Hi, sorry for being late into the discussion. Couldn't Intel Decimal Floating-Point Math Library be used? It seems to be using a BSD license. http://www.netlib.org/misc/intel/ Laurent

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [RFC 00/12] target-ppc: Decimal Floating Point

2014-04-14 Thread Tom Musta
Thank you, Eric, for the clarification.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [RFC 00/12] target-ppc: Decimal Floating Point

2014-04-14 Thread Eric Blake
On 04/14/2014 09:23 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 04/14/2014 09:18 AM, Tom Musta wrote: >> >> I am trying to make sense of the contents of the QEMU LICENSE file which >> states this: >> >> "1) QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License, >> version 2." >> >> but then late

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [RFC 00/12] target-ppc: Decimal Floating Point

2014-04-14 Thread Eric Blake
On 04/14/2014 09:18 AM, Tom Musta wrote: > > I am trying to make sense of the contents of the QEMU LICENSE file which > states this: > > "1) QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License, > version 2." > > but then later states this: > > "As of July 2013, contrib

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [RFC 00/12] target-ppc: Decimal Floating Point

2014-04-14 Thread Tom Musta
On 4/11/2014 11:16 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 11.04.14 18:12, Tom Musta wrote: >> On 4/11/2014 10:31 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: >>> I don't think this is possible. Libdecnumber is GPLv3+ code while QEMU >>> overall is licensed at GPLv2 only. Gotta love licenses... >>> >>> Is there an older,

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [RFC 00/12] target-ppc: Decimal Floating Point

2014-04-11 Thread Tom Musta
On 4/11/2014 10:31 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: > I don't think this is possible. Libdecnumber is GPLv3+ code while QEMU > overall is licensed at GPLv2 only. Gotta love licenses... > > Is there an older, GPLv2 licensed version available? Interesting timing I was just about to put out a complet

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [RFC 00/12] target-ppc: Decimal Floating Point

2014-04-11 Thread Alexander Graf
On 11.04.14 18:12, Tom Musta wrote: On 4/11/2014 10:31 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: I don't think this is possible. Libdecnumber is GPLv3+ code while QEMU overall is licensed at GPLv2 only. Gotta love licenses... Is there an older, GPLv2 licensed version available? Interesting timing I was

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [RFC 00/12] target-ppc: Decimal Floating Point

2014-04-11 Thread Alexander Graf
On 13.03.14 16:12, Tom Musta wrote: This patch series provides a prototype of Decimal Floating Point (DFP) instruction support in QEMU. The topic was briefly discussed here: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-ppc/2014-02/msg00129.html I. Overview The core of the DFP model is a librar