On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 01:05:03PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > 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.
Thanks for your work! > 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. I guess this last step is the reason why comments added long after the original code are also modified by your patch. Right? > 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). > > If you are on CC, it is because you have contributed to the softfloat > code in QEMU. Please response to this note with: > > Acked-by: Your Name <y...@email.com> > > To significant that you are able and willing to relicense your changes > to the SoftFloat-1a license (or a GPL compatible license). > > Please respond no later than May 6th, 2013. If we are unable to confirm > relicense from an author, changes from that author will be reverted. Acked-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurel...@aurel32.net> -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
