From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38732) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USzJi-0000Q9-Up for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:36:44 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USzJf-00004t-7D for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:36:42 -0400 Received: from e23smtp05.au.ibm.com ([202.81.31.147]:45538) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USzJe-0008SA-FH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:36:39 -0400 Received: from /spool/local by e23smtp05.au.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:31:09 +1000 Received: from d23relay03.au.ibm.com (d23relay03.au.ibm.com [9.190.235.21]) by d23dlp01.au.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 297932CE804A for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:36:03 +1000 (EST) Received: from d23av03.au.ibm.com (d23av03.au.ibm.com [9.190.234.97]) by d23relay03.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id r3J0ZuNw8716754 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:35:57 +1000 Received: from d23av03.au.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d23av03.au.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id r3J0a2Ga004018 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:36:02 +1000 From: Anthony Liguori In-Reply-To: <779593819.2704750.1366296781624.JavaMail.root@redhat.com> References: <1366240040-10730-1-git-send-email-mrhines@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1366240040-10730-9-git-send-email-mrhines@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20130418075828.GA15869@redhat.com> <516FFC58.8050303@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20130418130611.GA20196@redhat.com> <516FFFC3.1060701@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20130418133232.GC20196@redhat.com> <779593819.2704750.1366296781624.JavaMail.root@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:35:47 -0500 Message-ID: <87bo9buzks.fsf@codemonkey.ws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] licensing of IBM contributions to QEMU (was Re: [PULL v4 08/11] rdma: core logic) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini , "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: quintela@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Michael R. Hines" , owasserm@redhat.com, Bulent Abali , Michael R Hines , Gokul B Kandiraju Paolo Bonzini writes: >> > >>>I'm guessing you need approval from Jiuxing Liu for this, >> > >>>pls make him ack license change. >> > >>He approves. He doesn't work for IBM anymore. >> > >Does he approve version 2 or version 2 or later? >> > > >> > >> > It doesn't matter - his contributions were made at IBM and he >> > doesn't work for IBM anymore. >> >> It's considered polite not to ignore author's wishes wrt licensing. >> It's best to contact and get the ack if possible. If not, please tell >> the list and we'll consider the options. > > There are three cases: > > - relicensing to something less restrictive, employer agrees on more > liberal license, employee doesn't. The employer's choice wins. There > are certainly RH employees that would prefer v2 and no later version, > but we are still releasing all RH changes as GPLv2+. > > - relicensing to something less restrictive, no employer (or employer > lets the employee choose the license). Here you *must* contact the > employee. > > - relicensing to something compatible but more restrictive (e.g. > BSD -> GPL). No legal obligation to contact the author (his contributions > would still be available on the older license, all you get by contacting > the author is that you can remove the BSD terms from the file), but it > is indeed more polite to do so. > > > I'm pretty sure that IBM cares about licensing, but I don't know what > their global policy is. Surely they didn't do a full grant of their > contributions to GPLv2+ (which RH and a bunch of other people did), > but if _new_ IBM contributions are to be GPLv2+, there is no need to > contact Jiuxing Liu. Anthony? Guys, we'll fixup the copyright in the next round of patches. I can't talk publicly about our internal policies around copyright assignment and licensing or else I would. Just ignore the copyrights in this series as they are bogus for all intents and purposes. Regards, Anthony Liguori > > Paolo