Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] LICENSE: clarify licensing

[Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>]

Am 19.11.2012 19:34, schrieb malc:
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Peter Maydell wrote:
>
>> On 19 November 2012 18:21, malc<av1474@comtv.ru>  wrote:
>>> On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>>> +5) Files without explicit licenses fall under the GPL v2.
>>>
>>> I have issue with this, files without licenses are just that files
>>> without licenses.
>>
>> If we believe this (and it seems a logical thing to believe)
>> then QEMU's not distributable until we rewrite or remove or track
>> down all authors for all the files without licenses...
>
> Yes.

That can only be true if those files are older than LICENSE,
or at least older than the commit which added

"QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License". (2007)

Any file or contribution which was added later (with or without a 
license clause)
cannot invalidate this general license, so QEMU remains distributable.

Nevertheless fixing files without explicit license is desirable,
of course.

Stefan