From: "Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
Tom Musta <tmusta@us.ibm.com>,
Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Michael Ranweiler <mranweil@us.ibm.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] fpu/softfloat.c licensing
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 11:53:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <537C77B6.4090106@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA9jtZxnML_c5h8Mk4tJ681xjGOqVRMFAtwX9UmGxOAOAg@mail.gmail.com>
Am 21.05.2014 11:47, schrieb Peter Maydell:
> On 21 May 2014 10:43, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> writes:
>>> How many % of the overall commits does that make? IIRC you can
>>> relicense source code if the "majority of authors" agrees and nobody
>>> actively disagrees - or so. But IANAL :)
>>
>> You can get away with infringing copyright if nobody actively sues you.
>>
>> Sorry, not an option. We have to rip out contributions we can't get
>> relicensed. Except for contributions that don't qualify for copyright
>> protection, but that's shaky ground; let's not go there.
>
> Presumably if IBM has an active interest in helping us to fix this
> they can provide an actual lawyer's legal opinion, so we don't
> need to make amateur guesses about what we need to do...
Well, in a previous case, IBM's legal department didn't manage to
relicense trivial malloc -> g_malloc changes by Anthony, so I wouldn't
set my hopes too high... confirming that relicensing someone's
contribution without their consent was not an option so far.
Cheers,
Andreas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-21 9:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-21 3:54 [Qemu-devel] fpu/softfloat.c licensing Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-05-21 7:51 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-05-21 7:55 ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-21 9:43 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-05-21 9:47 ` Peter Maydell
2014-05-21 9:53 ` Andreas Färber [this message]
2014-05-21 8:43 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-05-21 9:17 ` Peter Maydell
2014-05-21 9:25 ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-03 3:52 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-06-03 9:45 ` Peter Maydell
2014-06-03 11:38 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-06-03 11:42 ` Peter Maydell
2014-08-04 4:55 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-08-04 8:48 ` Peter Maydell
2014-08-04 10:37 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-08-04 11:12 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-08-04 11:14 ` Peter Maydell
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