Re: [Qemu-devel] GPLv3 troubles

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 10/17/2011 04:17 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > License fragmentation with respect to the de facto standard toolchain
> > (binutils)
> > is wrong.
>
> Fragmentation with respect to the de factor standard kernel (Linux) is
> wrong.   We currently pull in code (mostly headers, although not exclusively)
> from Linux too.  That puts us between a rock and a hard place.

We are a userspace package, though, and kernel headers are not 
copyrightable.  Unlike perf we do not define APIs, we're just a consumer 
even for KVM (by design!).

And when something we pull in is not headers (no example comes to mind), 
the copyright holder is quite often one of two well-known employers.

Paolo