On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 at 12:28, Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.came...@huawei.com> wrote: > > CCIX topologies are 'layered' on top of PCIe tree topologies. > This is done primarily by allowing a single CCIX device to appear as > multiple disjoint nodes in the PCIe tree.
> This patch is being distributed by the CCIX Consortium, Inc. (CCIX) to > you and other parties that are paticipating (the "participants") in > qemu with the understanding that the participants will use CCIX's > name and trademark only when this patch is used in association with > qemu. > > CCIX is also distributing this patch to these participants with the > understanding that if any portion of the CCIX specification will be > used or referenced in qemu, the participants will not modify the cited > portion of the CCIX specification and will give CCIX propery copyright > attribution by including the following copyright notice with > the cited part of the CCIX specification: > "© 2019 CCIX CONSORTIUM, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED." (Apologies for replying to this now quite old email, but your more recent followup email drew it to my attention.) I think that as a project, QEMU can't take patches which come with this kind of additional constraint on top of the GPL. Could you drop these extra legal clauses, please? thanks -- PMM
