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!] > > > > 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. > > > > [1] http://veertu.com/ > > > > >
