From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52275) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8qt1-0004yg-CZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 08:43:00 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8qsw-0006kj-IX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 08:42:59 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:60989) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8qsu-0006bY-6j for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 08:42:54 -0500 Message-ID: <54AD12A0.70607@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 12:04:00 +0100 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1416925057-692-1-git-send-email-peter.maydell@linaro.org> <54ACCE8B.1090701@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] relicense QEMU softfloat from 2b to to 2a List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: Christophe Lyon , Patch Tracking , Richard Sandiford , Juan Quintela , QEMU Developers , Avi Kivity , Blue Swirl , Max Filippov , Paul Brook , Anthony Liguori , Stefan Weil , Guan Xuetao , =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBGw6RyYmVy?= , Aurelien Jarno , Richard Henderson 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