From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>,
Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>,
Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] GPLv3 troubles
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:47:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E9C07D1.9090004@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E9C0746.3030509@suse.de>
On 10/17/2011 12:45 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Could we please draft some policy on this? This is not a GDB issue, it's
> very general. Whether we like it or not, there is GPLv3-licensed code
> and there will probably be a GPLv4 one day.
>
> IMO having old GPLv2-only code is one thing. But there's a lot of new
> GPLv2-only code cooking and occasionally pouring in, especially from
> qemu-kvm. Device assignment is a current example I encountered.
>
> If we could make checkpatch.pl detect new GPLv2-only code, then I would
> hope, given the dynamic QEMU development of the last few years, that the
> GPLv2-only portions become so small (both in relation and absolute) that
> they can either be replaced or the authors' permission be obtained to
> change the license to GPLv2-or-later.
That is close to impossible, you usually ask permission for all the
authors in the history to avoid bigger problems.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-17 10:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-10 2:25 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] target-xtensa: add overlay parsing header and convert hand-written core definitions to use overlays Max Filippov
2011-10-10 2:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/7] target-xtensa: increase xtensa options accuracy Max Filippov
2011-10-10 2:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/7] target-xtensa: remove hand-written xtensa cores implementations Max Filippov
2011-10-10 2:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/7] target-xtensa: implement external interrupt mapping Max Filippov
2011-10-10 2:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] target-xtensa: extract core configuration from overlay Max Filippov
2011-10-10 2:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/7] target-xtensa: add dc232b core Max Filippov
2011-10-10 2:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/7] target-xtensa: add fsf core Max Filippov
2011-10-15 9:02 ` Blue Swirl
2011-10-15 13:15 ` Max Filippov
2011-10-15 13:44 ` Max Filippov
2011-10-15 13:50 ` Blue Swirl
2011-10-15 14:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] " Max Filippov
2011-10-17 10:45 ` [Qemu-devel] GPLv3 troubles (was: [PATCH 6/7] target-xtensa: add fsf core) Andreas Färber
2011-10-17 10:47 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2011-10-17 11:07 ` [Qemu-devel] GPLv3 troubles Andreas Färber
2011-10-17 11:10 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-10-17 16:39 ` Andreas Färber
2011-10-17 16:47 ` Peter Maydell
2011-10-17 16:51 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-10-17 17:58 ` Andreas Färber
2011-10-17 18:16 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-10-17 18:18 ` Peter Maydell
2011-10-17 18:20 ` Stefan Weil
2011-10-17 18:29 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-10-17 18:34 ` Peter Maydell
2011-10-17 18:37 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-10-17 19:33 ` Blue Swirl
2011-10-17 19:43 ` Blue Swirl
2011-10-17 17:01 ` Andreas Färber
2011-10-17 12:38 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-10-17 12:50 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-10-17 14:17 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-10-17 14:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-10-17 16:30 ` Andreas Färber
2011-10-17 16:47 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-10-17 17:46 ` Stefan Weil
2011-10-17 19:29 ` Blue Swirl
2011-10-17 20:44 ` Avi Kivity
2011-10-18 8:01 ` Markus Armbruster
2011-10-18 13:03 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-10-18 14:33 ` Andreas Färber
2011-10-18 14:36 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-10-18 14:44 ` nicolas.sauzede
2011-10-18 15:00 ` andrzej zaborowski
2011-10-18 15:19 ` Peter Maydell
2011-10-18 15:31 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-10-18 16:01 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-10-18 16:15 ` Peter Maydell
2011-10-18 16:20 ` Avi Kivity
2011-10-18 16:30 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-10-18 16:32 ` Peter Maydell
2011-10-18 16:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-10-18 18:44 ` Blue Swirl
2011-10-18 15:56 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-10-18 16:14 ` Peter Maydell
2011-10-25 14:34 ` Dor Laor
2012-01-25 21:16 ` Stefan Weil
2012-01-26 18:05 ` Michael Walle
2011-10-17 17:52 ` Andreas Färber
2011-10-10 2:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/7] target-xtensa: rename dc232b board to sim Max Filippov
2011-10-15 21:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] target-xtensa: add overlay parsing header and convert hand-written core definitions to use overlays Blue Swirl
2011-10-15 21:52 ` Max Filippov
2011-10-16 6:15 ` Stefan Weil
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