Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-file: Add copyright header to qemu-file.c

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com> writes:

> * Eduardo Habkost (ehabkost@redhat.com) wrote:
>> The person who created qemu-file.c (me, on commit
>> 093c455a8c6d8f715eabd8c8d346f08f17d686ec) didn't add a copyright/license
>> header to the file, even though the whole code was copied from savevm.c
>> (which had a copyright/license header).
>> 
>> To correct this, copy the copyright information and license from
>> savevm.c, that's where the original code came from.
>> 
>> Luckily, very few changes were made on qemu-file.c after it was created.
>> All the authors who touched the code are being CCed, so they can confirm
>> if they are OK with the copyright/license information being added.
>
> Since it's come from vl.c that seems to make sense.
> It should probably go to the stable branch as well, since reading the ~/LICENSE
> file would make you think it's GPLd.
>
> Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>

Since we released it that way, licensees could in good faith assume they
got it under GPL.

My contribution was just a one-liner bug fix.  Regardless:

Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>