Re: [Qemu-devel] Publicating with QEMU

[Clemens Kolbitsch]

On Thursday 20 September 2007 16:08:51 Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> Clemens Kolbitsch wrote:
> > Hi guys!
> > Short question: I'm having a speech at BlackHat Japan in Oktober about
> > something I made with qemu. Basically it is a new hardware type (so it is
> > just an additional file in the hw-subdirectory) --- it's the wireless
> > device I have been asking questions for a couple of months ago in case
> > someone remembers (there will be some code for you guys soon ;-) ).
> >
> > For the conference CD, they want me to give them my code. Is it ok if i
> > just send them the whole qemu code I have here (I have only modified the
> > Makefile to include my hw/myfile.c) --- i just want to make sure that the
> > version is right and it compiles out of the box.
>
> As a general note, if you have modifications which are useful to a wider
> audience, consider to submit them as patches to this mailing list.
>
> > Is that OK with the GPL stuff?? I include all the READMEs that come with
> > QEMU svn, and I don't claim to be the author of QEMU or anything. Just
> > want to do it correctly ;-)
>
> Yes, that's fine. (You can check for yourself, the GPL isn't as
> incomprehensible as some other software licenses.)
>
> > Any advice, comments, etc.?
>
> Make sure to mark your version as a modified one, so people come to you
> when they have questions, and don't ask us about bugs/features we never
> heard of. :-)
>
>
> Thiemo


perfect -- thanks!

once we get all the publication stuff behind us, you'll hear from us -- 
promised :-)

to turn our code into a standard network card shouldn't be too much of work 
and it's acually quite cool to have a wireless network inside qemu. doesn't 
help much besides increasing the coolness factor, though ;-)

bye