Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/7] qemu: CCIX pcie config space emulation

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 13:59:02 +0100
Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 at 12:28, Jonathan Cameron
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > CCIX topologies are 'layered' on top of PCIe tree topologies.
> > This is done primarily by allowing a single CCIX device to appear as
> > multiple disjoint nodes in the PCIe tree.  
> 
> > This patch is being distributed by the CCIX Consortium, Inc. (CCIX) to
> > you and other parties that are paticipating (the "participants") in
> > qemu with the understanding that the participants will use CCIX's
> > name and trademark only when this patch is used in association with
> > qemu.
> >
> > CCIX is also distributing this patch to these participants with the
> > understanding that if any portion of the CCIX specification will be
> > used or referenced in qemu, the participants will not modify the cited
> > portion of the CCIX specification and will give CCIX propery copyright
> > attribution by including the following copyright notice with
> > the cited part of the CCIX specification:
> > "© 2019 CCIX CONSORTIUM, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED."  
> 
> (Apologies for replying to this now quite old email, but your
> more recent followup email drew it to my attention.)
> 
> I think that as a project, QEMU can't take patches which come
> with this kind of additional constraint on top of the GPL. Could
> you drop these extra legal clauses, please?

Jon, if you could raise this with CCIX legal that would be great.

Thanks,

Jonathan
 
> 
> thanks
> -- PMM