From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JFdOb-0005J8-JG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:39:37 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JFdOa-0005IO-Sr for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:39:37 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JFdOa-0005IB-NO for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:39:36 -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 1JFdOY-0005zE-T3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:39:36 -0500 Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:36:46 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20080117.153646.742956694.imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20080117223145.GI28842@networkno.de> References: <478FC8B9.6000801@gmail.com> <20080117223145.GI28842@networkno.de> 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, ths@networkno.de In message: <20080117223145.GI28842@networkno.de> Thiemo Seufer writes: : andrzej zaborowski wrote: : > On 17/01/2008, Bill C. Riemers wrote: : > > 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... : > : > In order to relicense all of qemu, yes, plus contributors of : > BSD-licensed code, of which there is much more than GPLv2-licensed. : : Actually, re-licensing BSD code as GPL is legal (but not nice). No. It isn't. *ADDING* the GPL license to a 2-clause BSD licensed file is legal, but removing the BSD stuff is not allowed. It must be retained, per the BSD license. Warner