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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] signrom: Rewrite as python script
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@amd.com>, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

Am 24.01.2012 16:25, schrieb Jan Kiszka:
> On 2012-01-24 16:22, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 01/24/2012 01:53 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> Now that we have a hard dependency on python anyway, we can replace the
>>> slow shell script to calculate the option ROM checksum with a fast AND
>>> portable python version. Tested both with python 2.7 and 3.1.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> +++ b/scripts/signrom.py
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
>>> +#
>>> +# Option ROM Signing utility
>>> +#
>>> +# Authors:
>>> +# Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
>>> +#
>>> +# This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPLv2.
>>
>> Any reason you aren't using GPLv2+,
>
> Internal complications. :-/

Then I think these complications need to be handled first.

Any new code with GLP should use GPLv2+.
Can you use a BSD like license or PD?

Regards,
Stefan

PS. Anthony, there are more scripts/*.py files with GPLv2 only.
As they are all from IBM / Redhat / Blue, they can be changed to GPLv2+.