[Qemu-devel] Re: The QEMU Accelerator Module

[Anand Kumria]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 00:31:03 +0100, Fabrice Bellard wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just commited the first alpha release of the QEMU Accelerator Module
> (aka KQEMU) in the CVS. It gives better performance for the "x86 on x86"
> case by running most of the application code as is. It works only for a
> Linux x86 host running a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel. Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels and
> Windows 2000 have been runnning as guest OSes, but other OSes may work as
> well. As with every alpha kernel driver testing, it is better to backup
> your data before trying it.
> 
> KQEMU is _not_ open source as the rest of QEMU. It is a proprietary kernel
> module (read the LICENSE file) and will stay so until a gentle company
> decides to subsidy the QEMU project.

Is it really fair to distribute a proprietary module from a free software
source code repository?

Anand