Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio documentation or BSD licensed driver?

[higepon]

Hi.

I really appreciate your help. Thanks.
That's what I want to know about.

> 2) Think of virtio-net as just another (sophisticated) PCI driver and
> look at its implemenation
> in qemu. Although qemu is not BSD licensed, your work is unlikely to
> be considered a derivative
> of qemu since you are implementing a driver for that virtual
> "hardware", not another copy it.

Maybe this is suitable for my OS.

> The BSD virtio headers, the paper and the virtio-net qemu
> implementation should be enough to
> allow you to write a driver for your OS imho (it is already more info
> than you typically get for
> real hardware)

Okay I will start from reading the paper.

> P.S., in practice I believe several developers for other OSes look at
> the sources of linux drivers
> as sort of a really good documentation for hardware, even if the
> license of their OS is incompatible.
> IANAL and all that, but I 'd be really suprised if you got sued for
> porting virtio-net to your hobby OS :)

Interesting and resonable.
But Since Mona OS is my life work, i want to avoid from license problems.


Cheers.