From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JFcYN-0004E7-2e for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:45:39 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JFcYK-0004BX-F4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:45:37 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JFcYK-0004BE-9a for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:45:36 -0500 Received: from bsdimp.com ([199.45.160.85] helo=harmony.bsdimp.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JFcYJ-0001L5-W5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:45:36 -0500 Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:44:58 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20080117.144458.63053471.imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <478FC8B9.6000801@gmail.com> References: <8a6cde920801171244k35d84ec9vf82277d2e5090a4f@mail.gmail.com> <20080117.140706.232931235.imp@bsdimp.com> <478FC8B9.6000801@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, docbill@gmail.com In message: <478FC8B9.6000801@gmail.com> "Bill C. Riemers" writes: : According to section 9 of the GPL, you would only have to contact : contributors for code which specified version 2 of the GPL and not later... I said exactly this in a previous message. At one point I recalled seeing some code that was gpl2-only in the tree. I can't find it now, so either I'm mistaken, or it has gone away. The key point being, however, that if there is such code, or any other code that's licensed under a license that isn't compatible with gplv3, simple notice on a public forum is not sufficient from a legal point of view. Warner