Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] softfloat: rebase to version 2a

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> writes:

> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 01:05:03PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> 7) Checkout the latest master branch, apply the diff from (6)
>>    - There were a lot of comment rejects, confirmed this was only comments
>>      and then used an emacs macro to rewrite the comments to the Softfloat-2a
>>      form.
>
> I guess this last step is the reason why comments added long after the
> original code are also modified by your patch. Right?

Indeed.  This is also why I provided a detailed explanation of the
methodology :-)

>> In order to make this change, we need to relicense all contributions
>> from initial import of the SoftFloat code to match the license of
>> SoftFloat-2a (instead of the implied SoftFloat-2b license).
>> 
>> If you are on CC, it is because you have contributed to the softfloat
>> code in QEMU.  Please response to this note with:
>> 
>> Acked-by: Your Name <your@email.com>
>> 
>> To significant that you are able and willing to relicense your changes
>> to the SoftFloat-1a license (or a GPL compatible license).
>> 
>> Please respond no later than May 6th, 2013.  If we are unable to confirm
>> relicense from an author, changes from that author will be reverted.
>
> Acked-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>

Thanks to everyone that has responded so far!

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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