Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] LICENSE: clarify

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

> > -1) QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License
> > +1) QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
> > +version 2.
> 
> I appreciate these clarifications. For point 1, I suggest
> 
> ... version 2 or (at your option) any later version.

As Eric explained, I wish this was true! :)

I explained this in the commit message, too:
> > 1) The GPL says that "if the Program does not specify a version number
> > of this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free
> > Software Foundation".  This is not true, QEMU includes parts that are
> > v2-only.

> > -Fabrice Bellard.
> > +Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU team
> 
> "QEMU team" is rather unspecific. Who is member of the QEMU team?
> 
> * People with commit rights?
> * All maintainers listed in MAINTAINERS?
> * Participants of the KVM calls?
> * QEMU contributors working for Redhat, IBM, SUSE?
> * All contributors?
> 
> Fabrice Bellard and all QEMU contributors would be more specific.

Certainly these rules have to be understood by committers, but QEMU
team is intended in the most generic sense.  It just means "people
who care about these rules"---everyone else agrees to them by providing
the Signed-off-by lines in their commit messages, and this includes
many from RH/IBM/SuSE.

"XYZ team" occurs frequently in copyright notices, and I don't think
the interpretation of it is going to be a problem.

Paolo