The Q developers (see QEMU & Q for more information) maybe changing the Q license in regards to iEmulator. Q is the OS X version of QEMU, an open source processor emulator.
To set this straight, once and for all times… we are not related in any way with iEmulator.
“Well, the two projects look very alike! †– Surprised? Actually iEmulator checks out our code, changes the icons, name, removes the link to the mother homepage and finally adds a price tag.
We (the QEMU and Q team) have invested thousands of hours in developing and improving an emulation solution for OS X (and many other platforms). We maintain a growing website, forums, blogs , wikis and we answer nearly every mail we get from the user community. FREE OF CHARGE.
So you will surely understand why we were a little upset with the latests iEmulator release. Repackaging and selling Q(EMU) is perfectly OK with the licences that stick to QEMU and Q (lgpl/gpl).
But when you boast (and actually claim) to have coded “Audiosupport†and “VPC7 Import†etc. it is outright a lie.
Btw, making sources available means the complete sources, including the buildscripts.So expect major changes in Q soon:
We plan to cleanly separate all the functions that we add to qemu sources and add it to the Q executable, so that we can put at least Q under a creative commons non-commercial (by-nc) license.What will that change for you?
* If you are a user: nothing.
* If you are a dev: You still can get the sources and make your derivatives of Q and share them FOR FREE.
* If you are iEmulator: You are no longer allowed to sell products that include code of Q, and we mean it!*end rant*
Mike