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QEMU

QEMU is an open-source machine emulator and virtualizer that provides full-system emulation, user-mode emulation and KVM or Xen virtualization. The emulator as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License, version 2, and is distributed as source code and through operating system packages.

Licensing at a Glance

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  1. QEMU is released under the GNU General Public License, version 2; parts of QEMU have specific licences described in the LICENSE file.[1]

  2. Source files with no licensing information are released under GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version, and the Tiny Code Generator is mostly under BSD or MIT licences.[2]

  3. The QEMU distribution includes firmware files that are separate programs with their own licences.[3]

  4. QEMU is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard, and QEMU is a member of Software Freedom Conservancy.[4]

  5. QEMU is distributed as signed source tarballs and is packaged by most Linux distributions.[5]

Products

References

  1. License — QEMU documentation · qemu.org · retrieved 2026-09-27
  2. QEMU LICENSE · gitlab.com · retrieved 2026-09-27
  3. QEMU LICENSE · gitlab.com · retrieved 2026-09-27
  4. QEMU · qemu.org · retrieved 2026-09-27
  5. Download QEMU - QEMU · qemu.org · retrieved 2026-09-27
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