Re: [Qemu-devel] why is kqemu closed?

[Sebastian Kaliszewski]

Auke Kok wrote:
> no matter how you turn Linus' arguments, he doesn't like anything else 
> than ports from windows driver objects linked, and I can really agree 
> with that. Whatever the laywers say about it is moot - only judges 
> listen to them and Open Source doesn't listen to laywers (in generally). 
> Plenty of vendors are already backing up Open Source too, and not just 
> with t-shirts and penguins.

The only thing important is what GPL says. And GPL is clear here. KQemu must 
be a derived work (i.e. include some source (even C headres) from kernel 
and/or be bound just to a Linux kernel) to be forced to go under GPL. But 
neither it includes any kernel headres nor it's Linux only -- the very same 
binary (object file) can be used with *BSD as well as Windows. So KQemu can 
be legally licenced under any licence Fabrice chooses.

rgds
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Sebastian Kaliszewski