Re: Why we should avoid new submodules if possible

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 05:15:05PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> FYI, the reason much of this is intentionally NOT under the /qemu-project
> gitlab namespace is that we did not want to be responsible for distributing
> arbitrary binary blobs/images. That in turn makes the QEMU project responsible
> for license compliance, which is non-trivial todo correctly for much of this
> stuff. As such it is highly desirable to delegate both the hosting the
> binaries and source to the third party who builds it.

This might be understadable for random guest OS images which include tons of 
stuff
and are thus hard to audit.  But not to biosbits which has its own
license (more or less bsd) + gpl for grub:
https://github.com/biosbits/bits/blob/master/COPYING

> I agree the use of personal github accounts is not nice, but it was the
> least worst solution identified.


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