Re: [Qemu-devel] GPLv3 troubles

[Anthony Liguori]

On 10/17/2011 07:50 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 10/17/2011 02:38 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > > Could we please draft some policy on this? This is not a GDB issue, it's
> > > very general. Whether we like it or not, there is GPLv3-licensed code
> > > and there will probably be a GPLv4 one day.
> >
> > I don't see anything wrong with GPLv2 only. While I don't think there's
> > anything wrong with GPLv3, I think that "or later" is a dangerous clause
> > to add.
>
> License fragmentation with respect to the de facto standard toolchain (binutils)
> is wrong.

Fragmentation with respect to the de factor standard kernel (Linux) is wrong.

We currently pull in code (mostly headers, although not exclusively) from Linux 
too.  That puts us between a rock and a hard place.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Until llvm includes support for as many obscure targets as we support
> in QEMU, some level of pragmatism might be necessary.
>
> Paolo