From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] vmstate: Add copyrights for all cpus
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:22:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EB95743.7070702@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA-WJHmvoykyQ3XyzOrOucoy3t-LHsP4vsHXqehP+5v-2w@mail.gmail.com>
On 11/08/2011 04:39 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> >> + * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2. See
>>> >> + * the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
>> >
>> > ... or later please.
> Need to be careful here. Marking something previously unmarked as
> GPLv2 is pretty clearly OK because the project license is v2 so
> the unmarked stuff was contributed either under that or under a
> compatible license. Marking as v2+ is on somewhat thinner ice
> IMHO and ideally we shouldn't do it without an ack from the
> relevant copyright owner.
Richard Fontana (who is not our lawyer, but still knows the GPL pretty
well) posted a while ago his reasoning as to why it should be safe to
consider files without a header to be GPLv2+. Of course this is only as
long as they do not contain GPLv2-only code from non-QEMU sources.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-08 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-07 17:38 [Qemu-devel] [RFC] vmstate: Add copyrights for all cpus Juan Quintela
2011-11-07 17:46 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-11-07 19:30 ` Juan Quintela
2011-11-08 15:39 ` Peter Maydell
2011-11-08 16:22 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2011-11-07 18:39 ` Edgar E. Iglesias
2011-11-07 19:29 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-07 20:21 ` Edgar E. Iglesias
2011-11-07 19:36 ` Richard Henderson
2011-11-07 19:41 ` Michael Walle
2011-11-08 15:43 ` Andrzej Zaborowski
2011-11-13 10:01 ` Blue Swirl
2011-11-13 22:52 ` Juan Quintela
2011-11-14 13:55 ` Andreas Färber
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