Re: [Qemu-discuss] Possible GPL infringement of QEMU/SeaBIOS code

[Narcis Garcia]

Which license is Veertu?

FSF says:
"The FSF can only enforce the license on works to which we hold the
copyright, but we can still help bring about compliance even when the
copyright lies elsewhere."

www.fsf.org/licensing


El 28/01/16 a les 19:35, Calvin ha escrit:
> [Originally sent to -dev, thought that was the wrong ML – sorry if
> duplicated!]
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> After the collapse of VMware’s Hosted UI divison, there’s been talks
> about a new virtualization platform for Mac called “Veertu” [1] – it
> relies on OS X’s new native Hypervisor.framework/vmnet.framework. From a
> quick glance however, I think they are violating the GPL by using QEMU
> code (I presume it is an adaption of qemu-kvm to Hypervisor.framework)
> without attribution or releasing their changed sources. I’ve noticed the
> supported Ethernet cards are the same, and from a glance inside the
> bundle, I can see ROMs for all of QEMU’s supported VGA adapters, as well
> as the ROM itself being SeaBIOS. Furthermore, by looking inside of the
> “vmx” binary, this seems to be where they have put QEMU code. In there,
> you can see command-line switches, mentions of various dependencies of
> QEMU, and various other strings that indicate QEMU – they seem to have
> removed the QEMU branding though. I haven’t seen any information in
> their application or on their site about this.
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> [1] http://veertu.com/
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