Re: [Qemu-devel] Set up github repo for pmon sources

[BALATON Zoltan]

On Sat, 16 Mar 2019, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 3/15/19 9:06 PM, Andrew Randrianasulu wrote:
> > https://github.com/Randrianasulu/pmon/commits/2014
> >
> > hopefully it will stay this way.
> >
> > Anyone know what license I must pick for this?
> > 3-clause BSD? 4-clause BSD? (from Copyright file it lists 4 terms)
>
> 4-clause BSD is incompatible with the GPL, and thus cannot be used for
> qemu.  (2-clause and 3-clause are okay, though).

To clarify, this is the firmware of the mips_fulong2e board. So it's a 
separate project but would make the board work more like the real 
hardware. We don't use code from this firmware in QEMU itself but 
including the firmware binary would make it simpler to run the board. If 
we include a binary we should probably also provide the source (even if 
BSD license does not require that) for convenience in roms, mirrored from 
the above git repo like for other firmwares. Is it still incompatible for 
that? What should be the preferred way then? Can we put the binary and 
source on qemu.org somewhere and link to it so it's not distributed with 
QEMU but still easy to get?

Regards,
BALATON Zoltan

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