Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v3 22/25] ay8910: YM2608 core forked from MAME 0.59

[Roy Tam]

2009/10/29 malc <address@hidden>:
> On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Roy Tam wrote:
>
>> Version 0.37a of fmopl.c/h is relicensed to LGPL by Tatsuyuki
>> Satoh(original fmopl developer).
>> other versions are not. Especially newer versions by Jarek Burczynski
>> as he refused to relicense new fmopl to LGPL.
>
> The first part is the case, the fmopl.c used by QEMU is the relicensed
> LGPL version taken from adplug. As for refusal to relicense newer fmopl
> and ymf262 all i can say that my attempts to contact Jarek was
> unsuccessful so i don't know his real stance on the subject.
>

Even if we don't use fmopl, we can also port dbopl(C++) and/or opl.cpp
from dosbox.

>> 2009/10/29 Stuart Brady <address@hidden>:
>> > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:55:04PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> >> On 10/28/2009 09:08 PM, Stuart Brady wrote:
>> >> >On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 01:50:11AM +0900, TAKEDA, toshiya wrote:
>> >> >>+
>> >> >>+/* This version of ay8910.c is a fork of the MAME 0.59 one, relicensed
>> >> >>under the LGPL.
>> >> >
>> >> >Where have you taken this from?
>> >>
>> >> More exactly, how is this not violating copyright, since MAME's license
>> >> is not compatible with anything else (more or less)?
>> >
>> > For that matter, fmopl.c in QEMU looks an awful lot like a copyright
>> > violation to me:
>> >
>> > http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=%22This+version+of+fmopl.c%22
>
> P.S. Please don't top post.
>

sorry about that.

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