From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60331) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLqUr-0001q1-16 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:14:25 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLqUm-0006VO-W7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:14:24 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:8402) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLqUm-0006VI-Nv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:14:20 -0400 Message-ID: <50752044.4060309@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 09:14:12 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <5055FD83.4050202@wiesinger.com> <507504D2.5020905@wiesinger.com> <50750D24.8050908@weilnetz.de> In-Reply-To: <50750D24.8050908@weilnetz.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Wrong license (GPL 2 only) for files in fsdev List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stefan Weil Cc: Anthony Liguori , "M. Mohan Kumar" , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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