Re: [Qemu-devel] GPLv3 troubles

[Anthony Liguori]

On 10/17/2011 11:47 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 17 October 2011 17:39, Andreas Färber<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > Am 17.10.2011 13:10, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
> > > Making a list of GPLv2 files would be a start, though.
> >
> > grep -r version *.c comes up with these:
>
> Your rune needs tweaking -- it isn't looking inside any
> subdirectories.

Including binutils code is just a bad idea.  I know noone wants to hear that but 
it's unfortunately true.

The FSF does copyright assignment which means it's easy for them to relicense. 
Since we don't do copyright assignment, it's much, much harder for us to 
relicense.  We'd waste huge amounts of man hours trying to chase binutils license.

We need to stick with the v2 version of binutils and perhaps work toward an 
alternative in the future.  Relicensing is just not practical.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> -- PMM