From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Artyom Tarasenko" <atar4qemu@gmail.com>,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>,
"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
"Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>,
"Eduardo Habkost" <eduardo@habkost.net>,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Mark Cave-Ayland" <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hw/rtc/sun4v-rtc: Relicense to GPLv2-or-later
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 08:38:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87le77llow.fsf@pond.sub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240223161300.938542-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org> (Peter Maydell's message of "Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:13:00 +0000")
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
> The sun4v RTC device model added under commit a0e893039cf2ce0 in 2016
> was unfortunately added with a license of GPL-v3-or-later, which is
> not compatible with other QEMU code which has a GPL-v2-only license.
>
> Relicense the code in the .c and the .h file to GPL-v2-or-later,
> to make it compatible with the rest of QEMU.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> ---
> Before we can commit this to either head-of-git or any stable branch,
> we need a Signed-off-by: from everybody who's touched this file (or,
> for corporate contributions, from somebody from the relevant company
> who can confirm that the company is OK with the licensing, which is
> RedHat and Linaro in this case).
>
> The full list of people who've made changes to the file is:
> Artyom Tarasenko <atar4qemu@gmail.com>
> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
> Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
> Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
I'm cc'ing eduardo@habkost.net.
> (Artyom is the original author; everybody else's changes are largely
> mechanical, refactoring, etc. We've done some behind-the-scenes
> coordination so I don't anticipate any problems getting the
> signoffs.)
I doubt my contributions to these files are creative enough to qualify
for copyright, but better safe than sorry:
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-26 7:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-23 16:13 [PATCH] hw/rtc/sun4v-rtc: Relicense to GPLv2-or-later Peter Maydell
2024-02-23 16:33 ` Alex Bennée
2024-02-23 17:00 ` Alex Bennée
2024-02-26 7:38 ` Markus Armbruster [this message]
2024-03-05 11:13 ` Artyom Tarasenko
2024-03-05 11:26 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2024-03-05 11:58 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-03-05 13:33 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2024-03-05 14:29 ` Paolo Bonzini
2024-03-05 14:45 ` Peter Maydell
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