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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] softfloat: rebase to version 2a
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Aurelien Jarno |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] softfloat: rebase to version 2a |
Date: |
Wed, 1 May 2013 18:32:30 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 01:05:03PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> N.B. If you are on CC, see after the '---' for a requested action!
>
> The license of SoftFloat-2b is claimed to be GPLv2 incompatible by
> the FSF due to an indemnification clause. The previous release,
> SoftFloat-2a, did not contain this clause. The only changes between
> these two versions as far as QEMU is concerned is the license change
> and a global modification of the comment structure. This patch rebases
> our softfloat code to SoftFloat-2a in order to have a GPLv2 compatible
> license.
Thanks for your work!
> Please note, this is a comment-only change. The resulting binary should
> be the same.
>
> I created this patch using the following strategy:
>
> 1) Create a branch using the original import of softfloat code:
> $ git checkout 158142c2c2df728cfa3b5320c65534921a764f26
>
> 2) Remove carriage returns from Softfloat-2b
>
> 3) Compare each of the softfloat files against Softfloat-2b using the
> following mapping to generate Fabrice's original softfloat changes:
>
> - fpu/softfloat.c -> softfloat/bits64/softfloat.c
> - fpu/softfloat.h -> softfloat/bits64/386-Win32-gcc/softfloat.h
> - fpu/softfloat-macros.h -> softfloat/bits64/softfloat-macros
> - fpu/softfloat-specialize.h ->
> softfloat/bits64/386-Win32-gcc/softfloat-specialize
>
> 4) Replace our softfloat files with the corresponding files from Softfloat-2a
>
> 5) Apply the diffs from (3) to (4) and commit
>
> 6) Create a diff between (5) and 158142c2c2df728cfa3b5320c65534921a764f26
> - This diff consists 100% of licensing change + comment reformating
>
> 7) Checkout the latest master branch, apply the diff from (6)
> - There were a lot of comment rejects, confirmed this was only comments
> and then used an emacs macro to rewrite the comments to the Softfloat-2a
> form.
I guess this last step is the reason why comments added long after the
original code are also modified by your patch. Right?
> Cc: Andreas Färber <address@hidden>
> Cc: Aurelien Jarno <address@hidden>
> Cc: Avi Kivity <address@hidden>
> Cc: Ben Taylor <address@hidden>
> Cc: Blue Swirl <address@hidden>
> Cc: Christophe Lyon <address@hidden>
> Cc: Fabrice Bellard <address@hidden>
> Cc: Guan Xuetao <address@hidden>
> Cc: Jocelyn Mayer <address@hidden>
> Cc: Juan Quintela <address@hidden>
> Cc: malc <address@hidden>
> Cc: Max Filippov <address@hidden>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
> Cc: Paul Brook <address@hidden>
> Cc: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
> Cc: Richard Henderson <address@hidden>
> Cc: Richard Sandiford <address@hidden>
> Cc: Stefan Weil <address@hidden>
> Cc: Thiemo Seufer <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>
> ---
> In order to make this change, we need to relicense all contributions
> from initial import of the SoftFloat code to match the license of
> SoftFloat-2a (instead of the implied SoftFloat-2b license).
>
> If you are on CC, it is because you have contributed to the softfloat
> code in QEMU. Please response to this note with:
>
> Acked-by: Your Name <address@hidden>
>
> To significant that you are able and willing to relicense your changes
> to the SoftFloat-1a license (or a GPL compatible license).
>
> Please respond no later than May 6th, 2013. If we are unable to confirm
> relicense from an author, changes from that author will be reverted.
Acked-by: Aurelien Jarno <address@hidden>
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] softfloat: rebase to version 2a,
Aurelien Jarno <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] softfloat: rebase to version 2a, Andreas Färber, 2013/05/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] softfloat: rebase to version 2a, Andreas Färber, 2013/05/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] softfloat: rebase to version 2a, Blue Swirl, 2013/05/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] softfloat: rebase to version 2a, Paul Brook, 2013/05/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] softfloat: rebase to version 2a, Christophe Lyon, 2013/05/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] softfloat: rebase to version 2a, Peter Maydell, 2013/05/13