Re: [Qemu-devel] QLicense chaos

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 05/07/2010 02:39 PM, Jan Kiszka 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.
>    

So lgpl libraries (like libvirt) can use libqmp.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Jan
>
>