From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:35006) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RIi5m-0001lg-1l for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:35:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RIi5f-0000La-Jy for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:35:01 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:13273) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RIi5f-0000L5-AL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:34:55 -0400 Message-ID: <4EA6C907.6020207@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:34:47 +0200 From: Dor Laor 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> In-Reply-To: <4E9D7918.7060103@codemonkey.ws> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] GPLv3 troubles Reply-To: dlaor@redhat.com List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: Stefan Weil , Markus Armbruster , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Blue Swirl , Max Filippov , Avi Kivity , Paolo Bonzini , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_F=E4rber?= On 10/18/2011 03:03 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 10/18/2011 03:01 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> Avi Kivity writes: >> >>> On 10/17/2011 07:46 PM, Stefan Weil wrote: >>>> >>>> So let's start. For any of my contributions, I agree to GPL v2 or >>>> later. >>>> Later generations should have the possibility to replace GPL v2 by >>>> something which matches future requirements. >>> >>> I expect Red Hat contributions can be relicensed to v2+ as well. >> >> Plenty of precedence for that. >> > > Okay, let's get serious about it. I set up the following wiki page for > coordination: > > http://wiki.qemu.org/Relicensing > > Please get the appropriate approval at Red Hat, and follow the ACK for *@redhat.com > instructions on the wiki. I'm in the process of getting approval at IBM. > Between RH, IBM, and Blue, there's a pretty large chunk of files that > can be relicensed immediately. It's probably best to tackle this > incrementally. > > Regards, > > Anthony Liguori >