From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:53195) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RFl2b-0002AV-3J for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:07:34 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RFl2X-0007Lg-K5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:07:33 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:39006 helo=mx2.suse.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RFl2X-0007LV-Bl for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:07:29 -0400 Message-ID: <4E9C0C6F.6070502@suse.de> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:07:27 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBGw6RyYmVy?= MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1318213565-3268-1-git-send-email-jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> <1318213565-3268-7-git-send-email-jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> <4E9C0746.3030509@suse.de> <4E9C07D1.9090004@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4E9C07D1.9090004@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] GPLv3 troubles List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Blue Swirl , Max Filippov , Anthony Liguori , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Avi Kivity Am 17.10.2011 12:47, schrieb Paolo Bonzini: > On 10/17/2011 12:45 PM, Andreas F=C3=A4rber wrote: >> Could we please draft some policy on this? This is not a GDB issue, it= 's >> very general. Whether we like it or not, there is GPLv3-licensed code >> and there will probably be a GPLv4 one day. >> >> IMO having old GPLv2-only code is one thing. But there's a lot of new >> GPLv2-only code cooking and occasionally pouring in, especially from >> qemu-kvm. Device assignment is a current example I encountered. >> >> If we could make checkpatch.pl detect new GPLv2-only code, then I woul= d >> hope, given the dynamic QEMU development of the last few years, that t= he >> GPLv2-only portions become so small (both in relation and absolute) th= at >> they can either be replaced or the authors' permission be obtained to >> change the license to GPLv2-or-later. >=20 > That is close to impossible, you usually ask permission for all the > authors in the history to avoid bigger problems. I did refer to authors in history, in case that was unclear. I was thinking of how much code we rewrote for TCG, qdev, etc. In the end it'll depend on which files are affected, and I don't have a list - hard to grep due to varying formulations and line breaks. Andreas --=20 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 N=C3=BCrnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imend=C3=B6rffer; HRB 16746, AG N=C3= =BCrnberg