Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v0 1/2] gluster: Change licence to GPLv2+

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 07:59:55PM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> Pipe handling mechanism in gluster driver was based on similar implementation
> in RBD driver and hence had GPLv2 and associated copyright information.
> After changing gluster driver to coroutine based implementation, the pipe
> handling code no longer exists and hence change gluster driver's licence to
> GPLv2+ and remove RBD copyrights.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  block/gluster.c | 12 ++----------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/gluster.c b/block/gluster.c
> index a009b15..ba56005 100644
> --- a/block/gluster.c
> +++ b/block/gluster.c
> @@ -3,17 +3,9 @@
>   *
>   * Copyright (C) 2012 Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>   *
> - * Pipe handling mechanism in AIO implementation is derived from
> - * block/rbd.c. Hence,
> + * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
> + * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
>   *
> - * Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Christian Brunner <chb@muc.de>,
> - *                         Josh Durgin <josh.durgin@dreamhost.com>
> - *
> - * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2.  See
> - * the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
> - *
> - * Contributions after 2012-01-13 are licensed under the terms of the
> - * GNU GPL, version 2 or (at your option) any later version.
>   */
>  #include <glusterfs/api/glfs.h>
>  #include "block/block_int.h"

I looked at git log -p block/gluster.c and this change seems reasonable,
but due to the nature of license changes:

If anyone disagrees and has copyright on part of this file, please speak
now.

Stefan