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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] GPLv3 troubles
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On 10/18/2011 05:19 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 18 October 2011 14:03, Anthony Liguori<anthony@codemonkey.ws>  wrote:
>> Okay, let's get serious about it.  I set up the following wiki page for
>> coordination:
>>
>> http://wiki.qemu.org/Relicensing
>
> This says:
> use the following git command to get a list of authors:
>
> git log --format:"%an<%ae>" -- file.c
>
> which (apart from having a typo) only lists the people who were
> the git commit authors. This isn't the same as everybody who might
> have copyright on the change. There are certainly commits in the
> omap support which have gone through several people (listed in
> the Signed-off-by: lines) who all have copyright-authorship even
> if they're not git-commit-authors.

Yes, also just to get it written somewhere: the list of copyright 
holders is merely indicative.

Anyway, unfortunately this is, I think, a lost battle.  For linux-user 
there's too much Linux kernel code.  It would still be nice to not 
introduce more GPLv2-only code, but don't hold your breath...

Paolo