From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35925) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8tV0-00021i-7I for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 11:30:27 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8tUv-0006Wy-Dl for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 11:30:22 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:45009) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8tUv-0006Ws-5n for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 11:30:17 -0500 Message-ID: <54AD5EEA.8050401@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 17:29:30 +0100 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1416925057-692-1-git-send-email-peter.maydell@linaro.org> <54ACCE8B.1090701@redhat.com> <54AD12A0.70607@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 17:23, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 7 January 2015 at 11:04, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> >> >> 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. > > You said > # All Red Hat contributions (at least Avi, Juan, me; don't know about rth) > # are available under GPLv2+; also other authors agreed on it. For this > # particular license, > # Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini > > and Juan said: > # As said by paolo, any contribution by me is under GPLv2+ O:-) > > which I took to mean that the RH contribs were GPLv2+, not SF2a. I was not counting rth, because I don't know what he did on company time and what he did on his own, and he's not on the virt team too. rth and Avi agreed on SoftFloat-2a license separately. Juan was the only one to reply to my message above, and his reply http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-04/msg05849.html is somewhat contradictory; he mentions GPLv2 but his explicit Acked-by was below my own Acked-by "for this particular license". I took that as a SoftFloat-2a ack too when I reviewed the commits and threads this morning. But... > Anyway, we can make the future-changes license sf2a regardless > of what license the RH contribs in the past are under (we have > the non-SF2a BSD contribs as well so the license of the whole > file is never going to be a single simple thing). ... this is true anyway. Paolo