From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, ths@networkno.de
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:36:46 -0700 (MST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080117.153646.742956694.imp@bsdimp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080117223145.GI28842@networkno.de>
In message: <20080117223145.GI28842@networkno.de>
Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de> writes:
: andrzej zaborowski wrote:
: > On 17/01/2008, Bill C. Riemers <docbill@gmail.com> wrote:
: > > According to section 9 of the GPL, you would only have to contact
: > > contributors for code which specified version 2 of the GPL and not later...
: >
: > In order to relicense all of qemu, yes, plus contributors of
: > BSD-licensed code, of which there is much more than GPLv2-licensed.
:
: Actually, re-licensing BSD code as GPL is legal (but not nice).
No. It isn't. *ADDING* the GPL license to a 2-clause BSD licensed
file is legal, but removing the BSD stuff is not allowed. It must be
retained, per the BSD license.
Warner
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-17 22:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-17 12:55 [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license Ulrich Hecht
2008-01-17 18:39 ` Stefan Weil
2008-01-17 18:45 ` M. Warner Losh
2008-01-17 18:55 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-17 20:44 ` Ricardo Almeida
2008-01-17 21:07 ` M. Warner Losh
2008-01-17 21:29 ` Bill C. Riemers
2008-01-17 21:39 ` andrzej zaborowski
2008-01-17 22:31 ` Thiemo Seufer
2008-01-17 22:36 ` M. Warner Losh [this message]
2008-01-17 22:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-17 22:58 ` M. Warner Losh
2008-01-17 22:56 ` Thiemo Seufer
2008-01-17 23:19 ` andrzej zaborowski
2008-01-17 21:44 ` M. Warner Losh
2008-01-17 22:11 ` Thiemo Seufer
2008-01-17 22:09 ` Thiemo Seufer
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