Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/8] qapi: add generator for Golang interface

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 07, 2024 at 01:36:49PM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> writes:

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>> > TL;DR: I think you can re-add the documentation comments to
>> > the Golang code generator, declare the resulting code as being
>> > "MIT-0 AND GPL-2.0-or-later".
>> >
>> > In the README.md file we need todo two important things:
>> >
>> >  * Document our interpretation of the "combined work" license
>> >    situation for applications consuming the project.
>> >  * Declare that *ALL* manually written code contributions
>> >    are exclusively MIT-0.
>> 
>> What code do you have in mind?  Can you provide an example?
>
> I don't have any particular examples. Perhaps 100% of the .go code
> in the repo in question will be auto-generated. I can't predict the
> future, so there's a decent chance we might end up with some basic
> scaffolding and/or layered framework code that is manually written.

Yes.

> If such a situation arises, it is important to have anticipated this,
> to make clear it is intended to be under a specific license.

Makes sense.