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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] introduce BSD-licensed block driver
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
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On 08/18/13 16:25, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 16/08/2013 16:59, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
>> Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> writes:
>>
>>> Paolo asked me to write such a driver based on his textual specification
>>> alone. The first patch captures his email in full, the rest re-quotes
>>> parts that are being implemented.
>>>
>>> The tree compiles at each patch. The series passes "make check-block".
>>>
>>> "block/raw.c" is not removed because I wanted to keep it out of my
>>> series and out of my brain.
>>>
>>> Disclaimer: I couldn't care less if the raw block driver was public
>>> domain or AGPLv3+, as long as it qualifies as free software. I'm only
>>> trying to do what Paolo asked of me.
>>
>> Generally speaking, rewriting parts of QEMU to be !GPL is something I
>> would strongly, strongly oppose.
>>
>> I believe that Paolo had a good reason for this though.
> 
> The reason is that Christoph said his original version of block/raw.c
> was meant to be GPLv2-only.  I don't care if the file is BSD or LGPLv2+,
> but most of the block layer is BSD, which is why I went for BSD.

So, is it OK if, after fixing the small problem in 7/7, I post v2 again
under the BSDL?

Thanks,
Laszlo