From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] LICENSE: clarify licensing
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:48:59 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obitcr10.fsf@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1211192234380.5399@linmac>
malc <av1474@comtv.ru> writes:
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Peter Maydell wrote:
>
>> On 19 November 2012 18:21, malc <av1474@comtv.ru> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> >> +5) Files without explicit licenses fall under the GPL v2.
>> >
>> > I have issue with this, files without licenses are just that files
>> > without licenses.
>>
>> If we believe this (and it seems a logical thing to believe)
>> then QEMU's not distributable until we rewrite or remove or track
>> down all authors for all the files without licenses...
>
> Yes.
That's ridiculous.
There has always been a LICENSE file with a catch-all clause going back
to at least 2005.
If a file doesn't have an explicit LICENSE, it falls under the catch all
clause.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
>
> --
> mailto:av1474@comtv.ru
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-19 19:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-19 16:40 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] LICENSE: clarify licensing Anthony Liguori
2012-11-19 18:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-11-19 18:21 ` malc
2012-11-19 18:34 ` Peter Maydell
2012-11-19 18:34 ` malc
2012-11-19 19:08 ` Stefan Weil
2012-11-19 19:30 ` malc
2012-11-19 19:48 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2012-11-19 20:00 ` malc
2012-11-20 10:39 ` Markus Armbruster
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