Re: [Qemu-devel] HQEMU :Violations of the GPLLicenses?

[Peter Maydell]

On 25 June 2014 15:05, Lb peace <address@hidden> wrote:
> Efficient and retargetable dynamic binary translation on multicores
> Author:Ding-Yong Hong; Jan-Jan Wu; Pen-Chung Yew; Wei-Chung Hsu; Chun-Chen
> Hsu; Pangfeng Liu; Chien-Min Wang; Yeh-Ching Chung
> IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
> DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2013.56
> Year: March 2014
>
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> As mentioned in this article，HQEMU is based on QEMU,which is realesd under
> the GPL license.But you cannot find any line of its source codes.
> Is this group‘s behavior  a violation of the GPL Licenses?

Probably not unless they distributed the binaries without any
of the ways to provide or offer to provide source that the GPL
permits.

-- PMM