Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: > Il 29/04/2013 20:05, Anthony Liguori ha scritto: >> N.B. If you are on CC, see after the '---' for a requested action! >> >> The license of SoftFloat-2b is claimed to be GPLv2 incompatible by >> the FSF due to an indemnification clause. The previous release, >> SoftFloat-2a, did not contain this clause. The only changes between >> these two versions as far as QEMU is concerned is the license change >> and a global modification of the comment structure. This patch rebases >> our softfloat code to SoftFloat-2a in order to have a GPLv2 compatible >> license. >> >> Please note, this is a comment-only change. The resulting binary should >> be the same. >> >> I created this patch using the following strategy: >> >> 1) Create a branch using the original import of softfloat code: >> $ git checkout 158142c2c2df728cfa3b5320c65534921a764f26 >> >> 2) Remove carriage returns from Softfloat-2b >> >> 3) Compare each of the softfloat files against Softfloat-2b using the >> following mapping to generate Fabrice's original softfloat changes: >> >> - fpu/softfloat.c -> softfloat/bits64/softfloat.c >> - fpu/softfloat.h -> softfloat/bits64/386-Win32-gcc/softfloat.h >> - fpu/softfloat-macros.h -> softfloat/bits64/softfloat-macros >> - fpu/softfloat-specialize.h -> > softfloat/bits64/386-Win32-gcc/softfloat-specialize >> >> 4) Replace our softfloat files with the corresponding files from Softfloat-2a >> >> 5) Apply the diffs from (3) to (4) and commit >> >> 6) Create a diff between (5) and 158142c2c2df728cfa3b5320c65534921a764f26 >> - This diff consists 100% of licensing change + comment reformating >> >> 7) Checkout the latest master branch, apply the diff from (6) >> - There were a lot of comment rejects, confirmed this was only comments >> and then used an emacs macro to rewrite the comments to the Softfloat-2a >> form. >> >> Cc: Andreas Färber <afaer...@suse.de> >> Cc: Aurelien Jarno <aurel...@aurel32.net> >> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi.kiv...@gmail.com> >> Cc: Ben Taylor <bentaylor.sol...@gmail.com> >> Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwir...@gmail.com> >> Cc: Christophe Lyon <christophe.l...@st.com> >> Cc: Fabrice Bellard <fabr...@bellard.org> >> Cc: Guan Xuetao <g...@mprc.pku.edu.cn> >> Cc: Jocelyn Mayer <l_ind...@magic.fr> >> Cc: Juan Quintela <quint...@redhat.com> >> Cc: malc <av1...@comtv.ru> >> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvb...@gmail.com> >> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> >> Cc: Paul Brook <p...@codesourcery.com> >> Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> >> Cc: Richard Henderson <r...@twiddle.net> >> Cc: Richard Sandiford <rdsandif...@googlemail.com> >> Cc: Stefan Weil <w...@mail.berlios.de> >> Cc: Thiemo Seufer <t...@networkno.de> >> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aligu...@us.ibm.com> >> --- >> In order to make this change, we need to relicense all contributions >> from initial import of the SoftFloat code to match the license of >> SoftFloat-2a (instead of the implied SoftFloat-2b license). > > All Red Hat contributions (at least Avi, Juan, me; don't know about rth) > are available under GPLv2+; also other authors agreed on it. For this > particular license, > > Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Juan Quintela <quint...@redhat.com> As said by paolo, any contribution by me is under GPLv2+ O:-) Anthony, thanks for the effort. Later, Juan.
