From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:34520) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RGC6v-0000ue-5j for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:01:56 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RGC6l-0007PR-In for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:01:49 -0400 Received: from mail-iy0-f173.google.com ([209.85.210.173]:44337) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RGC6l-0007P8-DU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:01:39 -0400 Received: by iakl21 with SMTP id l21so1012031iak.4 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:01:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E9DA2DE.2050904@codemonkey.ws> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:01:34 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori 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> <4E9C249D.3080509@redhat.com> <4E9C38F5.2060803@codemonkey.ws> <4E9C5832.908@suse.de> <4E9C5C3E.8030505@codemonkey.ws> <4E9C69E3.6080501@weilnetz.de> <4E9C93C5.9070101@redhat.com> <4E9D7918.7060103@codemonkey.ws> <4E9D9BEE.2050406@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4E9D9BEE.2050406@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; 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: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Peter Maydell , Stefan Weil , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster , Blue Swirl , Max Filippov , Avi Kivity , =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBGw6RyYmVy?= 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 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 >