Re: [Qemu-devel] [edk2] EDK II & GPL - Re: OVMF BoF @ KVM Forum 2015

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>]

* Daniel P. Berrange (berrange@redhat.com) wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 05:41:59PM -0700, Jordan Justen wrote:
> > On 2015-09-09 16:05:20, Andrew Fish wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Sep 9, 2015, at 3:24 PM, Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com> wrot> > > FWIW, I don't mind if the consensus is that GplDriverPkg must live in
> > > > a separate repo. But, it would be nice to hear a good reason why it
> > > > must live elsewhere.
> > > 
> > > Because GPL is not a permissive license. An accidental git grep and
> > > copying some code can change the license of the code that gets the
> > > GPL code pasted into it.
> > 
> > I like this argument. It is slightly tempered by the fact that git
> > grep always shows the source path, and thus 'GplDriverPkg' would be
> > obviously visible.
> 
> Plenty of projects have a scenario in which different parts of their
> codebase are under different licenses, without there being undue
> problems. If you make it clear by having a separate directory, then
> I think you can ultimately credit the developers with having enough
> intelligence to do the right thing here. If not, then I'd probably
> question whether you can trust them to submit any code at all, as
> they could equally have blindly copied it from a 3rd party project
> under an incompatible license.

Many companies dont trust their engineers to do that, and have painful
review processes to stop their engineers stupidly copying closed
code into open projects; and in general they're needed because the
engineers would do it if they weren't stopped.

Dave

> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
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