Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> >> Cc: Aurelien Jarno <[email protected]> >> Cc: Avi Kivity <[email protected]> >> Cc: Ben Taylor <[email protected]> >> Cc: Blue Swirl <[email protected]> >> Cc: Christophe Lyon <[email protected]> >> Cc: Fabrice Bellard <[email protected]> >> Cc: Guan Xuetao <[email protected]> >> Cc: Jocelyn Mayer <[email protected]> >> Cc: Juan Quintela <[email protected]> >> Cc: malc <[email protected]> >> Cc: Max Filippov <[email protected]> >> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]> >> Cc: Paul Brook <[email protected]> >> Cc: Peter Maydell <[email protected]> >> Cc: Richard Henderson <[email protected]> >> Cc: Richard Sandiford <[email protected]> >> Cc: Stefan Weil <[email protected]> >> Cc: Thiemo Seufer <[email protected]> >> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <[email protected]> >> --- >> 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 <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Juan Quintela <[email protected]> As said by paolo, any contribution by me is under GPLv2+ O:-) Anthony, thanks for the effort. Later, Juan.
