From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47083) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USuJD-0005d5-Mf for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:15:58 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USuJ9-0002Hc-Dr for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:15:51 -0400 Received: from e39.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.160]:37258) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USuJ9-0002HB-5n for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:15:47 -0400 Received: from /spool/local by e39.co.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:15:45 -0600 Received: from d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.106]) by d03dlp02.boulder.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A37923E4005E for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:15:28 -0600 (MDT) Received: from d03av06.boulder.ibm.com (d03av06.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.245]) by d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id r3IJFaTi245266 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:15:36 -0600 Received: from d03av06.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av06.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id r3IJIOnj013628 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:18:24 -0600 Message-ID: <51704651.3050309@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:15:29 -0400 From: "Michael R. Hines" MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1366240040-10730-1-git-send-email-mrhines@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1366240040-10730-9-git-send-email-mrhines@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20130418075828.GA15869@redhat.com> <516FFC58.8050303@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20130418130611.GA20196@redhat.com> <516FFFC3.1060701@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20130418133232.GC20196@redhat.com> <779593819.2704750.1366296781624.JavaMail.root@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <779593819.2704750.1366296781624.JavaMail.root@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] licensing of IBM contributions to QEMU (was Re: [PULL v4 08/11] rdma: core logic) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: aliguori@us.ibm.com, quintela@redhat.com, "Michael S. Tsirkin" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, owasserm@redhat.com, abali@us.ibm.com, mrhines@us.ibm.com, gokul@us.ibm.com On 04/18/2013 10:53 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >>>>>> I'm guessing you need approval from Jiuxing Liu for this, >>>>>> pls make him ack license change. >>>>> He approves. He doesn't work for IBM anymore. >>>> Does he approve version 2 or version 2 or later? >>>> >>> It doesn't matter - his contributions were made at IBM and he >>> doesn't work for IBM anymore. >> It's considered polite not to ignore author's wishes wrt licensing. >> It's best to contact and get the ack if possible. If not, please tell >> the list and we'll consider the options. > There are three cases: > > - relicensing to something less restrictive, employer agrees on more > liberal license, employee doesn't. The employer's choice wins. There > are certainly RH employees that would prefer v2 and no later version, > but we are still releasing all RH changes as GPLv2+. > > - relicensing to something less restrictive, no employer (or employer > lets the employee choose the license). Here you *must* contact the > employee. > > - relicensing to something compatible but more restrictive (e.g. > BSD -> GPL). No legal obligation to contact the author (his contributions > would still be available on the older license, all you get by contacting > the author is that you can remove the BSD terms from the file), but it > is indeed more polite to do so. > > > I'm pretty sure that IBM cares about licensing, but I don't know what > their global policy is. Surely they didn't do a full grant of their > contributions to GPLv2+ (which RH and a bunch of other people did), > but if _new_ IBM contributions are to be GPLv2+, there is no need to > contact Jiuxing Liu. Anthony? > > Paolo > Let me sync up with Anthony and we'll get back to everybody. - Michael