From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39696) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TaVsK-0001D8-U4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:15:23 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TaVs5-0005zY-RK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:15:11 -0500 Received: from mail-wi0-f175.google.com ([209.85.212.175]:43948) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TaVs4-0005oa-Ik for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:15:01 -0500 Received: by mail-wi0-f175.google.com with SMTP id hn14so171197wib.10 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:14:42 -0800 (PST) Sender: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <50AA7708.2070006@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:14:32 +0100 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1353343228-24870-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <1353343228-24870-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] LICENSE: clarify licensing List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Il 19/11/2012 17:40, Anthony Liguori ha scritto: > There's a couple changes here. Please note that no one should consider this as > licensing guidance from IBM. I'm merely updating this based on what I would > consider community consensus. > > The first change clarifies that the overall license is GPLv2. We have never > had GPLv1 code. The phrase "GNU General Public License" clearly refers to the > GPLv2. We cannot say the overall license is "GPLv2 or later" because we have > a number of files that are GPLv2 only. > > The second change clarifies that any file that doesn't have an explicit license > is covered under the GPLv2. This agrees with the first statement in LICENSE but > since it's so often asked, I thought we should make it explicit. No, files that don't have an explicit license are under "GPLv2 or later". > I also added an additional statement that this file only expresses the intent > of the QEMU community and should only be considered informative. > > Please explicitly Nack or Ack this change. > > Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori > --- > LICENSE | 8 ++++++-- > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE > index acae9a3..f4bee4c 100644 > --- a/LICENSE > +++ b/LICENSE > @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ > The following points clarify the QEMU license: > > -1) QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License > +1) QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License version 2 > > 2) Parts of QEMU have specific licenses which are compatible with the > GNU General Public License. Hence each source file contains its own > @@ -13,4 +13,8 @@ Many hardware device emulation sources are released under the BSD license. > > 4) QEMU is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard. > > -Fabrice Bellard. > +5) Files without explicit licenses fall under the GPL v2. > + > +6) This file represents the consensus view of the QEMU community. It does not > + alter any licenses used in the code base ... for individual files... > + and should be viewed as informative > + only. > Paolo