Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v4 7/7] MIPS: add PMON BIOS used by fulong mini pc

[yajin]

2010/6/21 Aurelien Jarno <address@hidden>:
> On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 06:41:33PM +0800, Huacai Chen wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>  pc-bios/README            |   13 +++++++++++++
>>  pc-bios/pmon_fulong2e.bin |  Bin 0 -> 348188 bytes
>>  2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100755 pc-bios/pmon_fulong2e.bin
>>
>> diff --git a/pc-bios/README b/pc-bios/README
>> index e62b4cd..d146acf 100644
>> --- a/pc-bios/README
>> +++ b/pc-bios/README
>> @@ -31,3 +31,16 @@
>>  - The S390 zipl loader is an addition to the official IBM s390-tools
>>    package. That fork is maintained in its own git repository at:
>>    git://repo.or.cz/s390-tools.git
>> +
>> +- The PMON BIOS (pmon_fulong2e.bin) comes from
>> +  http://www.loongson.cn/support/git/
>> +  If you want to build PMON from source, first git-clone the source
>> +  from the git repository at:
>> +  http://www.loongson.cn/support/git/pmon
>> +  Then follow the "Compile Guide" available at:
>> +  http://dev.lemote.com/code/pmon
>> +
>> +  Notes:
>> +  1, don't use the source at http://dev.lemote.com/http_git/pmon.git
>> +  2, use "Bonito2edev" to replace 
>> "dir_corresponding_to_your_target_hardware"
>> +  in the "Compile Guide".
>
>
> While the patch itself looks good, I am concerned by the license of PMON
> which is a BSD license with an advertisement clause:
>
> |  * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
> |  *    must display the following acknowledgement:
> |  *      This product includes software developed for Rtmx, Inc by
> |  *      Opsycon Open System Consulting AB, Sweden.
> |  *      This product includes software developed by Opsycon AB.
> |  *      This product includes software developed by ipUnplugged AB.
>
> This license is not compatible with the GPL, but it's not a problem for
> us as the PMON code is not linked with QEMU. On the other hand, the
> question is what is considered to be an advertisement? Should we put
> such acknowledgment on the QEMU website? On websites related to QEMU?
>
> I don't really know what to do here, opinions are welcome.
>


I think one option is not putting pmon_fulong2e.bin in the qemu
directly. If someone wants to use the PMON, he can build it by himself
or download the prebuilt one from some other place.


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yajin

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