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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	"M. Mohan Kumar" <mohan@in.ibm.com>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Wrong license (GPL 2 only) for files in fsdev
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 09:14:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50752044.4060309@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50750D24.8050908@weilnetz.de>

Il 10/10/2012 07:52, Stefan Weil ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> all files in fsdev still use GNU GPL version 2 only instead of
> GNU GPL  version 2 or later.

It's IBM copyright, so I think no.

> Can this be fixed? If not, we should addtext like this:
> 
> * Contributions after 2012-10-10 are licensed under the terms of the
> * GNU GPL, version 2 or (at your option) any later version.

Yes, that would be good.

> Is it possible to add some general statement to the QEMU license
> so that any file which is newly added and which uses GPL 2 is
> automatically GPL 2+? IMHO at least some remarks in CODING_STYLE
> would be good.

No, because in some cases there is GPLv2 code in the file, as was the
case for PCI device assignment.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-10  7:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-16 16:25 [Qemu-devel] Compile error Gerhard Wiesinger
2012-10-10  5:17 ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2012-10-10  5:52   ` [Qemu-devel] Wrong license (GPL 2 only) for files in fsdev Stefan Weil
2012-10-10  7:14     ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2012-11-01 19:47   ` [Qemu-devel] Compile error Gerhard Wiesinger
2012-11-01 20:13     ` Max Filippov
2012-11-01 20:27       ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2012-11-01 20:58     ` Anthony Liguori
2012-11-01 21:29       ` Gerhard Wiesinger

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