From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Sharma Bhupesh <bhupesh.sharma@freescale.com>,
Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [edk2] EDK II & GPL - Re: OVMF BoF @ KVM Forum 2015
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 11:08:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55F14885.6000300@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BY1PR0301MB1303AFBBCD402826282FA8FB82510@BY1PR0301MB1303.namprd03.prod.outlook.com>
On 10/09/2015 08:57, Sharma Bhupesh wrote:
> So based on my limited understanding, can't the OVMF driver which
> uses features from some GPL based code, carry a dual license (GPL +
> x11 [MIT]),
No, that would require agreement from the original copyright holder,
which you are not going to get.
> like most device trees in Linux do now (including the
> Freescale ARMv8 DTS, see [1] for reference), thus allowing its usage
> across both GPL and BSD based projects (like EDK2).
>
> We already have examples of such dual-licensed code (libfdt) being
> used in BSD-licensed EDK2 (see [2] for details).
The dual BSD/GPL license is pointless, since you can already take
BSD-licensed code and distribute it under the GPL. It just makes the
picture murkier without changing anything in practice.
Paolo
> In such a case we might not be required to create a separate GIT repo
> for the same.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-10 9:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-10 16:24 [Qemu-devel] OVMF BoF @ KVM Forum 2015 Laszlo Ersek
2015-09-09 8:57 ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-09-09 16:17 ` [Qemu-devel] EDK II & GPL - Re: [edk2] " Jordan Justen
2015-09-09 16:27 ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-09-09 16:27 ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-09-09 17:04 ` [edk2] EDK II & GPL - " Andrew Fish
2015-09-09 17:04 ` [Qemu-devel] " Andrew Fish
2015-09-09 17:57 ` Jordan Justen
2015-09-09 17:57 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jordan Justen
2015-09-09 19:11 ` El-Haj-Mahmoud, Samer
2015-09-09 19:11 ` [Qemu-devel] " El-Haj-Mahmoud, Samer
2015-09-09 22:24 ` Jordan Justen
2015-09-09 22:24 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jordan Justen
2015-09-09 23:05 ` Andrew Fish
2015-09-09 23:05 ` [Qemu-devel] " Andrew Fish
2015-09-09 23:11 ` El-Haj-Mahmoud, Samer
2015-09-09 23:11 ` El-Haj-Mahmoud, Samer
2015-09-10 0:41 ` Jordan Justen
2015-09-10 0:41 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jordan Justen
2015-09-10 3:26 ` Andrew Fish
2015-09-10 5:32 ` Jordan Justen
2015-09-10 6:19 ` Alexander Graf
2015-09-10 6:43 ` Andrew Fish
2015-09-10 6:43 ` Andrew Fish
2015-09-10 10:04 ` [Qemu-devel] " Laszlo Ersek
2015-09-10 11:40 ` Alexander Graf
2015-09-10 11:40 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alexander Graf
2015-09-10 12:17 ` Andrew Fish
2015-09-10 12:17 ` [Qemu-devel] " Andrew Fish
2015-09-10 13:28 ` Alexander Graf
2015-09-10 13:28 ` Alexander Graf
2015-09-10 14:24 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kevin Davis
2015-09-10 15:17 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-09-11 2:14 ` Kevin Davis
2015-09-11 2:40 ` Eric Blake
2015-09-11 3:44 ` Kevin Davis
2015-09-11 3:44 ` Kevin Davis
2015-09-11 4:35 ` Andrew Fish
2015-09-11 4:35 ` Andrew Fish
2015-09-11 2:40 ` Eric Blake
2015-09-11 2:14 ` Kevin Davis
2015-09-10 15:17 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-09-10 14:24 ` Kevin Davis
2015-09-10 10:04 ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-09-10 6:19 ` Alexander Graf
2015-09-10 6:57 ` Sharma Bhupesh
2015-09-10 6:57 ` [Qemu-devel] " Sharma Bhupesh
2015-09-10 9:08 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-09-10 9:08 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-09-10 5:32 ` Jordan Justen
2015-09-10 3:26 ` Andrew Fish
2015-09-10 9:26 ` [Qemu-devel] " Daniel P. Berrange
2015-09-10 9:26 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2015-09-10 11:57 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2015-09-10 11:57 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2015-09-09 22:30 ` Andrew Fish
2015-09-09 22:30 ` [Qemu-devel] " Andrew Fish
2015-09-09 16:17 ` EDK II & GPL - Re: [edk2] " Jordan Justen
2015-09-09 16:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
2015-09-09 16:43 ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-09-09 16:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Laszlo Ersek
2015-09-09 22:40 ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-09-09 22:40 ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Laszlo Ersek
2015-09-09 16:34 ` Ian Campbell
2015-09-09 8:57 ` Laszlo Ersek
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2015-09-09 20:09 [Qemu-devel] [edk2] EDK II & GPL - " Paolo Bonzini
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