Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Sponsorship for QEMU Developers...

[Leonardo E. Reiter]

Hi John,

I apologize for any confusion.  In fact I think I also used 'GPL' in my 
note by mistake instead of 'LGPL'.

The bottom line is just that we always prefer to err on the safe side, 
thus we chose not to include files such as 'vl.h' in our closed source 
bits.  Plus, it can get a bit dicey when the same tarball actually 
contains code with 2 or 3 (most files have BSD-style licenses in their 
comment headers!) types of licenses.  It was just the safe thing to do 
from our perspective, even if we were not even enabling the GPL'd code.

If you or anyone else has any other questions about how we interact with 
QEMU in our Win4Lin Pro product, please ask.  I want to be as honest and 
forward as possible with everyone, and hope that my company can work 
together in harmony with this great QEMU community.

Thank you for your understanding,

Leo Reiter

John R. Hogerhuis wrote:
> <snip>
> Color me confused, but Leo made the point that he is avoiding including
> any header files and instead dynamically linking. Why bother if the
> pieces in question are LGPLed or even better for him BSD'ed? Talk of
> code "contamination," etc.
> <snip>

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