Re: [Qemu-devel] Porting QEMU to PalmOS

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 01/07/07, Luke-Jr <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sunday 01 July 2007 07:29, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> > On 5/24/07, sinisa marovic <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > I'm afraid I will have to dissapoint you: it will be only isapc with no
> > > networking or other fancy devices. Main goal is the ability to run dos
> > > games. I do not know how familiar are you with PalmOS developer support.
> > > It is poor, gcc lack many important functions that have to be written
> > > from scratch. When I ported dosbox (which is written in c++)
Referring to this sentence ^
> >
> > (Happily violating the GPL)
> >
> > Will the qemu port also be binary only?
>
> What did he say that violates the GPL? Just because he is only porting the
> isapc stuff? I don't know any part of the GPL saying "when you port this, you
> must port all the features"... Or would such a port be inherently a violation
> due to system libraries being incompatible with the [L]GPL?

Releasing the dosbox PalmOS binary and not releasing the sources even
when explicitly asked to is a violation of GPL and of the policy of
sourceforge.net and a couple of other websites on which the binary
appears.

Regards