{"id":39,"date":"2006-08-15T14:46:35","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T19:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macvm.com\/q-may-change-licensing-in-regards-to-iemulator\/"},"modified":"2017-01-06T02:06:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T07:06:22","slug":"q-may-change-licensing-in-regards-to-iemulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/q-may-change-licensing-in-regards-to-iemulator\/","title":{"rendered":"Q May Change Licensing In Regards to iEmulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Q developers (see <a href=\"http:\/\/macvm.com\/qemu-q\/\">QEMU &#038; Q<\/a> for more information) maybe changing the Q license in regards to <a href=\"http:\/\/macvm.com\/iemulator\/\">iEmulator<\/a>.  Q is the OS X version of <a href=\"http:\/\/fabrice.bellard.free.fr\/qemu\/\">QEMU<\/a>, an open source processor emulator.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kju-app.org\/blog\/?p=6#comments\">Full Article w\/Comments:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To set this straight, once and for all times\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 we are not related in any way with iEmulator.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Well, the two projects look very alike! \u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8211; Surprised? Actually iEmulator checks out our code, changes the icons, name, removes the link to the mother homepage and finally adds a price tag.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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).<br \/>\nBut when you boast (and actually claim) to have coded \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Audiosupport\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153VPC7 Import\u00e2\u20ac\u009d etc. it is outright a lie.<br \/>\nBtw, making sources available means the complete sources, including the buildscripts.<\/p>\n<p>So expect major changes in Q soon:<br \/>\nWe 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/2.5\/\">creative commons non-commercial (by-nc) license<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What will that change for you?<\/p>\n<p>    * If you are a user: nothing.<br \/>\n    * If you are a dev: You still can get the sources and make your derivatives of Q and share them FOR FREE.<br \/>\n    * If you are iEmulator: You are no longer allowed to sell products that include code of Q, and we mean it!<\/p>\n<p>*end rant*<\/p>\n<p>Mike<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Q developers (see QEMU &#038; Q for more information) maybe changing the Q license in regards to iEmulator. Q is the OS X version of &#8230; <a title=\"Q May Change Licensing In Regards to iEmulator\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/macvm.com\/q-may-change-licensing-in-regards-to-iemulator\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Q May Change Licensing In Regards to iEmulator\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}