Re: [Qemu-devel] SoftFloat licensing in Linux kernel

2013-04-29 Thread Peter Maydell
On 29 April 2013 14:04, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Peter Maydell writes: >> ...rats, looks like (a) the license change was earlier, at >> the upstream version 2->2b boundary and (b) QEMU's softfloat >> is based on 2b, not 2 (as the kernel's is.) > > The kernel code is quite different than the QEMU

Re: [Qemu-devel] SoftFloat licensing in Linux kernel

2013-04-29 Thread Anthony Liguori
Peter Maydell writes: > On 29 April 2013 11:37, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 11 April 2013 07:49, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >>> QEMU uses the John Hauser's SoftFloat library. It seems the matter >>> isn't settled yet in Linux but the FSF says the license is >>> incompatible with GPLv2. >> >> So the

Re: [Qemu-devel] SoftFloat licensing in Linux kernel

2013-04-29 Thread Peter Maydell
On 29 April 2013 11:37, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 11 April 2013 07:49, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >> QEMU uses the John Hauser's SoftFloat library. It seems the matter >> isn't settled yet in Linux but the FSF says the license is >> incompatible with GPLv2. > > So the resolution determined for the k

Re: [Qemu-devel] SoftFloat licensing in Linux kernel

2013-04-29 Thread Peter Maydell
On 11 April 2013 07:49, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > http://lwn.net/Articles/546840/ > > QEMU uses the John Hauser's SoftFloat library. It seems the matter > isn't settled yet in Linux but the FSF says the license is > incompatible with GPLv2. So the resolution determined for the kernel is that they

[Qemu-devel] SoftFloat licensing in Linux kernel

2013-04-10 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
http://lwn.net/Articles/546840/ QEMU uses the John Hauser's SoftFloat library. It seems the matter isn't settled yet in Linux but the FSF says the license is incompatible with GPLv2. Something to keep an eye on. Stefan