> On 16 Jan 2017, at 20:17, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > > "reading data that shipped with QEMU > and where QEMU won't work at all without it" (the data files > are clearly part of the program as a whole and the GPL > applies to them even if they don't happen to be binaries);
I'm not a lawyer either, but isn't this case similar to packing binary modules with the Linux kernel? Regards, Liviu