Re: [Qemu-devel] SoftFloat licensing in Linux kernel

[Peter Maydell]

On 11 April 2013 07:49, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/546840/
>
> QEMU uses the John Hauser's SoftFloat library.  It seems the matter
> isn't settled yet in Linux but the FSF says the license is
> incompatible with GPLv2.

So the resolution determined for the kernel is that they actually
took the softfloat code at a version before the indemnification
clause appeared in upstream-softfloat's license:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-April/163904.html

Given that that change only happened ~2010 it seems pretty
likely that QEMU's softfloat code also predates it; has
anybody done the necessary digging in our version control
history to confirm?

thanks
-- PMM