From: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: Chetan <chetan4windows@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-trivial@nongnu.org,
"Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
"Thomas Huth" <thuth@redhat.com>,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fixing LGPL version number
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 11:22:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201008102239.GA2526468@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPPKfOHQV44b+kkcc3QYsLXya-5Ttcbve51uqRUS0e5GyouX6w@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 02:10:01PM +0530, Chetan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'll be working on replacing the license text in LGPL licensed files with
> the SPDX identifier tag and will submit it as a separate patch.
Removing existing license text is legally dubious if you are not the
exclusive copyright on the file being changed. Yes, the kernel did it,
but there was legal work behind the scenes before that was done.
Regards,
Daniel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-08 10:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-08 6:05 [PATCH] Fixing LGPL version number Chetan Pant
2020-10-08 6:13 ` no-reply
2020-10-08 7:54 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-10-08 7:57 ` Thomas Huth
2020-10-08 8:40 ` Chetan
2020-10-08 8:48 ` Thomas Huth
2020-10-08 10:22 ` Daniel P. Berrangé [this message]
2020-10-08 10:55 ` Chetan
2020-10-08 9:04 ` Thomas Huth
2020-10-08 9:22 ` Chetan
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