From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39720) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RFmeV-0001Hv-0I for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:50:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RFmeR-0003fT-0G for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:50:46 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f180.google.com ([209.85.216.180]:54526) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RFmeQ-0003fO-SZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:50:42 -0400 Received: by qyk10 with SMTP id 10so1142286qyk.4 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:50:42 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <4E9C249D.3080509@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:50:37 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini 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> <4E9C21C0.5070102@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <4E9C21C0.5070102@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] GPLv3 troubles List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: Blue Swirl , Max Filippov , Avi Kivity , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_F=E4rber?= , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 10/17/2011 02:38 PM, Anthony Liguori 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. > > I don't see anything wrong with GPLv2 only. While I don't think there's > anything wrong with GPLv3, I think that "or later" is a dangerous clause > to add. License fragmentation with respect to the de facto standard toolchain (binutils) is wrong. Until llvm includes support for as many obscure targets as we support in QEMU, some level of pragmatism might be necessary. Paolo