Re: [Qemu-arm] [RFC PATCH 0/7] qemu: CCIX pcie config space emulation

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 at 12:28, Jonathan Cameron
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> CCIX topologies are 'layered' on top of PCIe tree topologies.
> This is done primarily by allowing a single CCIX device to appear as
> multiple disjoint nodes in the PCIe tree.

> This patch is being distributed by the CCIX Consortium, Inc. (CCIX) to
> you and other parties that are paticipating (the "participants") in
> qemu with the understanding that the participants will use CCIX's
> name and trademark only when this patch is used in association with
> qemu.
>
> CCIX is also distributing this patch to these participants with the
> understanding that if any portion of the CCIX specification will be
> used or referenced in qemu, the participants will not modify the cited
> portion of the CCIX specification and will give CCIX propery copyright
> attribution by including the following copyright notice with
> the cited part of the CCIX specification:
> "© 2019 CCIX CONSORTIUM, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED."

(Apologies for replying to this now quite old email, but your
more recent followup email drew it to my attention.)

I think that as a project, QEMU can't take patches which come
with this kind of additional constraint on top of the GPL. Could
you drop these extra legal clauses, please?

thanks
-- PMM