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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] s390x: Fix the confusing
 contributions-after-2012 license statements
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To: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-s390x@nongnu.org, Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>, Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>, Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>

On Wed,  6 Feb 2019 13:41:33 +0100
Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:

> The license information in these files is rather confusing. The text
> declares LGPL first, but then says that contributions after 2012 are
> licensed under the GPL instead. How should the average user who just
> downloaded the release tarball know which part is now GPL and which
> is LGPL?
> 
> Looking at the text of the LGPL (see COPYING.LIB in the top directory),
> the license clearly states how this should be done instead:
> 
> "3. You may opt to apply the terms of the ordinary GNU General Public
>  License instead of this License to a given copy of the Library. To do
>  this, you must alter all the notices that refer to this License, so
>  that they refer to the ordinary GNU General Public License, version 2,
>  instead of to this License."
> 
> Thus let's clean up the confusing statements and use the proper GPL
> text only.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> ---
>  linux-user/s390x/target_cpu.h | 19 ++++++++-----------
>  target/s390x/cpu.c            | 19 ++++++++-----------
>  target/s390x/cpu.h            | 19 ++++++++-----------
>  target/s390x/kvm.c            | 19 ++++++++-----------
>  4 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)

Thanks, applied.