Is GXemul Free software?
Yes. I have released GXemul under a Free license. The code in GXemul is Copyrighted software, it is not public domain. (If this is confusing to you, you might want to read up on the definitions of the four freedoms associated with Free software, http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html.) The code I have written is released under a 3-clause BSD-style license (or “revised BSD-style” if one wants to use GNU jargon). Apart from the code I have written, some files are copied from other sources such as NetBSD, for example header files containing symbolic names of bitfields in device registers. They are also covered by similar licenses, but with some additional clauses. The main point, however, is that the licenses require that the original Copyright and license terms are included when you make a copy or modification. If you plan to redistribute GXemul without supplying the source code, then you need to comply with each individual source file some other way, for example by writing additiona
