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From: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: QLicense chaos
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On Fri, 07 May 2010 21:39:54 +0200
Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> /*
>  * QFloat Module
>  *
>  * Copyright (C) 2009 Red Hat Inc.
>  *
>  * Authors:
>  *  Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
>  *
>  * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2.  See
>  * the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
>  *
>  * Copyright IBM, Corp. 2009
>  *
>  * Authors:
>  *  Anthony Liguori   <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
>  *
>  * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, version 2.1 or later.
>  * See the COPYING.LIB file in the top-level directory.
>  *
>  */
> 
> Could you clean this up (and QBool)?
> 
> Moreover, some of the QObject files are LGPL, some GPL. I bet this was
> also not intended. But what was the idea behind the LGPL? Some libqmp which
> can be used by closed source apps? Then better establish the required
> license soon. Postponing this will only once require tedious author
> questionings.

 Yes, it started with GPL and later we decided to move to LGPL, in
the (likely) case we move all this stuff to a library.

 I'll send patches.