Re: [Qemu-devel] GPLv3 troubles

[Blue Swirl]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 10/17/2011 11:47 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
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>> On 17 October 2011 17:39, Andreas Färber<address@hidden>  wrote:
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>>> Am 17.10.2011 13:10, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
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>>>> Making a list of GPLv2 files would be a start, though.
>>>
>>> grep -r version *.c comes up with these:
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>> Your rune needs tweaking -- it isn't looking inside any
>> subdirectories.
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> Including binutils code is just a bad idea.  I know noone wants to hear that
> but it's unfortunately true.

Some targets like Alpha, m68k and Sparc32 are not evolving anymore, so
binutils from 2007 will be fine forever. In other cases, the
manufacturers are adding new instructions (x86, ARM and Sparc64), then
a modern disassembler would be more and more useful over time.

> 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.

Even with copyright assignment, our relicensing could conflict with theirs.

> 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
>
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>> -- PMM
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