From: "Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: aliguori@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] LICENSE: clarify
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 09:40:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51F8BF75.6080602@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1375251592-2537-3-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Am 31.07.2013 08:19, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
> 1) The GPL says that "if the Program does not specify a version number
> of this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free
> Software Foundation". This is not true, QEMU includes parts that are
> v2-only.
>
> 2) Provide a default for files with no licensing information.
>
> 3) It is not just hardware emulation that is under BSD license.
>
> 4) Restrict GPLv2-only contributions to user mode emulation (due to
> code from Linux) and PCI passthrough (due to code from Neocleus).
>
> 5) The rules were initially set by Fabrice but are being amended by
> other people (already in commit ee12e1f, LICENSE: There is no libqemu.a
> anymore, 2011-11-15). Do not put words in his mouth.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
Thanks,
Andreas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-31 7:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-31 6:19 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Clarify licensing terms Paolo Bonzini
2013-07-31 6:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] raw: add license header Paolo Bonzini
2013-07-31 7:52 ` Kevin Wolf
2013-07-31 8:01 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-08-02 7:01 ` Peter Lieven
2013-07-31 10:49 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-07-31 12:24 ` Jeff Cody
2013-07-31 13:04 ` Luiz Capitulino
2013-08-01 8:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-08-01 8:38 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-15 13:16 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-07-31 6:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] LICENSE: clarify Paolo Bonzini
2013-07-31 7:27 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2013-07-31 7:40 ` Andreas Färber [this message]
2013-07-31 16:48 ` Stefan Weil
2013-07-31 16:58 ` Eric Blake
2013-08-01 8:29 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-07-31 17:40 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-08-01 8:21 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-20 19:06 ` Christopher Covington
2013-07-31 15:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Clarify licensing terms Artyom Tarasenko
2013-08-14 16:29 ` Anthony Liguori
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