Re: [Qemu-devel] GPLv3 troubles

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 10/18/2011 10:31 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 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.


Ah, linux-user... hadn't thought about that.  Perhaps it's a lost cause.

Unless we split linux-user off into a separate repository.  The only real code 
sharing is TCG.   I can imagine a world where TCG lived in a separate repo along 
with qemu-system and linux-user.  Both repos could pull in TCG as a submodule.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

  It would still be nice to not introduce more
> GPLv2-only code, but don't hold your breath...
>
> Paolo
>