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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] softfloat: rebase to version 2a
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Juan Quintela |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] softfloat: rebase to version 2a |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:10:21 +0200 |
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Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> Il 29/04/2013 20:05, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
>> N.B. If you are on CC, see after the '---' for a requested action!
>>
>> The license of SoftFloat-2b is claimed to be GPLv2 incompatible by
>> the FSF due to an indemnification clause. The previous release,
>> SoftFloat-2a, did not contain this clause. The only changes between
>> these two versions as far as QEMU is concerned is the license change
>> and a global modification of the comment structure. This patch rebases
>> our softfloat code to SoftFloat-2a in order to have a GPLv2 compatible
>> license.
>>
>> Please note, this is a comment-only change. The resulting binary should
>> be the same.
>>
>> I created this patch using the following strategy:
>>
>> 1) Create a branch using the original import of softfloat code:
>> $ git checkout 158142c2c2df728cfa3b5320c65534921a764f26
>>
>> 2) Remove carriage returns from Softfloat-2b
>>
>> 3) Compare each of the softfloat files against Softfloat-2b using the
>> following mapping to generate Fabrice's original softfloat changes:
>>
>> - fpu/softfloat.c -> softfloat/bits64/softfloat.c
>> - fpu/softfloat.h -> softfloat/bits64/386-Win32-gcc/softfloat.h
>> - fpu/softfloat-macros.h -> softfloat/bits64/softfloat-macros
>> - fpu/softfloat-specialize.h ->
> softfloat/bits64/386-Win32-gcc/softfloat-specialize
>>
>> 4) Replace our softfloat files with the corresponding files from Softfloat-2a
>>
>> 5) Apply the diffs from (3) to (4) and commit
>>
>> 6) Create a diff between (5) and 158142c2c2df728cfa3b5320c65534921a764f26
>> - This diff consists 100% of licensing change + comment reformating
>>
>> 7) Checkout the latest master branch, apply the diff from (6)
>> - There were a lot of comment rejects, confirmed this was only comments
>> and then used an emacs macro to rewrite the comments to the Softfloat-2a
>> form.
>>
>> Cc: Andreas Färber <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Aurelien Jarno <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Avi Kivity <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Ben Taylor <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Blue Swirl <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Christophe Lyon <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Fabrice Bellard <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Guan Xuetao <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Jocelyn Mayer <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Juan Quintela <address@hidden>
>> Cc: malc <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Max Filippov <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Paul Brook <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Richard Henderson <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Richard Sandiford <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Stefan Weil <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Thiemo Seufer <address@hidden>
>> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>
>> ---
>> In order to make this change, we need to relicense all contributions
>> from initial import of the SoftFloat code to match the license of
>> SoftFloat-2a (instead of the implied SoftFloat-2b license).
>
> All Red Hat contributions (at least Avi, Juan, me; don't know about rth)
> are available under GPLv2+; also other authors agreed on it. For this
> particular license,
>
> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
Acked-by: Juan Quintela <address@hidden>
As said by paolo, any contribution by me is under GPLv2+ O:-)
Anthony, thanks for the effort.
Later, Juan.
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] softfloat: rebase to version 2a, Anthony Liguori, 2013/04/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] softfloat: rebase to version 2a, Anthony Liguori, 2013/04/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] softfloat: rebase to version 2a, Anthony Liguori, 2013/04/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] softfloat: rebase to version 2a, Richard Henderson, 2013/04/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] softfloat: rebase to version 2a, Paolo Bonzini, 2013/04/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] softfloat: rebase to version 2a, Max Filippov, 2013/04/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] softfloat: rebase to version 2a, Stefan Weil, 2013/04/30
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] softfloat: rebase to version 2a, Richard Sandiford, 2013/04/30
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] softfloat: rebase to version 2a, Avi Kivity, 2013/04/30
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] softfloat: rebase to version 2a, Ben Taylor, 2013/04/30
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] softfloat: rebase to version 2a, Xuetao Guan, 2013/04/30