Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 01/15] crypto: introduce cryptodev backend and crypto legacy hardware

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 12:50:53PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 13/09/2016 11:13, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
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> > New files are expected to be submitted under the GPLv2+ license,
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> 
> This is not true.  New files are expected to be submitted under a
> GPLv2+-compatible license, which this one is.

If you want to copy code snippets from existing files which are GPLv2+
licensed, into this new file, then that'd be a license violation as
this new file is granting broader permissions which the original code
did not grant. So I still believe this should be GPLv2+ unless there
is a compelling reason why it cannot be.

Regards,
Daniel
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