On Thursday 21 June 2007 06:28, Armbrost Failsafe wrote: > We are looking into using QEMU as the base for a model of a custom system > featuring some custom ASICs. But licensing issues are halting the process > right now. Does anyone know what happens license-wise if we create a model > of proprietary hardware using QEMU? Is that model automatically covered by > the GPL and thus we have to give to anyone who asks about it? It is clear > that if we keep it internal, it is OK. But anyone outside of our > organization is to use it, shouldn't they automatically be entitled to > receive the entire source of QEMU, including our models of proprietary > devices? Even if these are developed from scratch without using any > existing source code for devices?
Yep, that's the purpose of the GPL. It'll probably get a lot of people promoting it if you do a public release, too...
