From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: "Christophe Lyon" <christophe.lyon@st.com>,
"Patch Tracking" <patches@linaro.org>,
"Richard Sandiford" <rdsandiford@googlemail.com>,
"Juan Quintela" <quintela@redhat.com>,
"QEMU Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
"Avi Kivity" <avi.kivity@gmail.com>,
"Blue Swirl" <blauwirbel@gmail.com>,
"Max Filippov" <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>,
"Paul Brook" <paul@codesourcery.com>,
"Anthony Liguori" <aliguori@amazon.com>,
"Stefan Weil" <sw@weilnetz.de>,
"Guan Xuetao" <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>,
"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>,
"Aurelien Jarno" <aurelien@aurel32.net>,
"Richard Henderson" <rth@twiddle.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] relicense QEMU softfloat from 2b to to 2a
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 12:04:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54AD12A0.70607@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA9WexvFn0N=0RtnMRs4okzGS7U6h1DMVJK-5zp1eapqfw@mail.gmail.com>
On 07/01/2015 11:34, Peter Maydell wrote:
> The thing is that after all these relicensings we end up with a
> file with a mix of licenses in it. So for somebody actually
> using the file the controlling license is GPLv2+. (In particular
> all the RedHat contributions are GPLv2+, not SoftFloat-2a...)
Actually, all four of us (I and Avi and Juan and Luiz) acked the change,
so Red Hat contributions are SoftFloat-2a.
> So it seemed simplest to say 'GPLv2+ for future changes'; but
> it wouldn't make any major difference to pick softfloat-2a I guess
> (and that is the license covering the bulk of the code so it
> does make more sense in some ways).
Yes, that was my reasoning.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-07 13:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-25 14:17 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] relicense QEMU softfloat from 2b to to 2a Peter Maydell
2014-11-25 14:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/6] softfloat: Apply patch corresponding to rebasing to softfloat-2a Peter Maydell
2014-11-25 14:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/6] softfloat: Revert remaining portions of commits 75d62a5856 and 3430b0be36f Peter Maydell
2014-11-25 14:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/6] softfloat: Revert remaining parts of commits b645bb4885 and 5a6932d51d Peter Maydell
2014-11-25 14:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/6] softfloat: Implement uint64_to_float64() and uint64_to_float32() Peter Maydell
2014-11-25 14:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/6] softfloat: reimplement SNAN_BIT_IS_ONE support Peter Maydell
2014-12-11 16:41 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2014-12-11 18:02 ` Peter Maydell
2014-11-25 14:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] softfloat: Clarify license status Peter Maydell
2014-12-05 11:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] relicense QEMU softfloat from 2b to to 2a Peter Maydell
2014-12-17 14:06 ` Peter Maydell
2015-01-05 11:03 ` Peter Maydell
2015-01-07 6:13 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-01-07 10:34 ` Peter Maydell
2015-01-07 11:04 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-01-07 16:23 ` Peter Maydell
2015-01-07 16:29 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-01-07 16:34 ` Peter Maydell
2015-01-07 16:49 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-01-12 12:53 ` Peter Maydell
2015-01-12 12:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
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