Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/7] target-unicore32: Relicense to GPLv2+

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

On 03/14/2012 04:09 PM, Stefan Weil wrote:
> Am 14.03.2012 02:39, schrieb Andreas Färber:
>> Adopt the license text suggested by Guan Xue-tao for all files except
>> helper.c, to which Anthony Liguori (IBM) contributed a g_malloc() call.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Dor Laor <dlaor@redhat.com>
>> ---
>> target-unicore32/cpu.h | 5 ++---
>> target-unicore32/helper.h | 5 ++---
>> target-unicore32/op_helper.c | 5 ++---
>> target-unicore32/translate.c | 5 ++---
>> 4 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> Ack. I don't really think that my contribution here is large
> enough that my "Acked-by" or "Signed-off-by" is needed,
> but if it helps...
>
> As far as I know, at least in German law trivial changes don't
> result in a copyright claim. A global search-and-replace operation
> which replaces qemu_mallocz by g_malloc0 is trivial and no
> obstacle for a license change, so helper.c could be changed as
> well(that's my personal opinion).

Nack.

I don't really want to get into the business of splitting hairs here.  We have 
no pressing reason to relicense to GPLv2+ so let's do it right and get the 
appropriate SoBs.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Regards,
> Stefan W.
>