As someone who once worked on a product that had to carefully walk the line of legality, I haven't found any mention in this discussion of what I imagine is a k

As someone who once worked on a product that had to carefully walk the line of legality, I haven't found any mention in this discussion of what I imagine is a key problem for qemu, that doesn't face other projects: as an emulator, they are already under a lot of scrutiny for legality, and so they are going to need to be a lot more conservative than other random projects with respect to increasing their legal risk.