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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] fpu/softfloat.c licensing
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, Tom Musta <tmusta@us.ibm.com>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Michael Ranweiler <mranweil@us.ibm.com>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

Am 21.05.2014 11:47, schrieb Peter Maydell:
> On 21 May 2014 10:43, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> writes:
>>> How many % of the overall commits does that make? IIRC you can
>>> relicense source code if the "majority of authors" agrees and nobody
>>> actively disagrees - or so. But IANAL :)
>>
>> You can get away with infringing copyright if nobody actively sues you=
.
>>
>> Sorry, not an option.  We have to rip out contributions we can't get
>> relicensed.  Except for contributions that don't qualify for copyright
>> protection, but that's shaky ground; let's not go there.
>=20
> Presumably if IBM has an active interest in helping us to fix this
> they can provide an actual lawyer's legal opinion, so we don't
> need to make amateur guesses about what we need to do...

Well, in a previous case, IBM's legal department didn't manage to
relicense trivial malloc -> g_malloc changes by Anthony, so I wouldn't
set my hopes too high... confirming that relicensing someone's
contribution without their consent was not an option so far.

Cheers,
Andreas

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