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From: "Ricardo Almeida" <ric.almeida@gmail.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:44:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8a6cde920801171244k35d84ec9vf82277d2e5090a4f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801171844080.5731@racer.site>

> The problem is: you would have to ask every contributor whose code is
> still somewhere in the source code.  That is tedious, and takes time (I do
> not even think that an email would suffice).

>From what I read once in a slashdot post (it's worth what is worth),
it suffices a public announcement of the change and a deadline
(something around 60 to 90 days). The announce could be in QEmu
homepage and on this list...

> Besides, it would probably give problems to other projects using GPLv2 and
> using parts of QEmu (Xen, Darwine, ...).

>From (GPLv3 myth#2: You can't mix GPL software with other software)
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=331

> Speaking for myself, I'm not that interested in licenses, but code...

Speaking for myself, I'm not that interested in licenses and code, but
on using QEmu ;) :)

Keep up the great work,
Ricardo Almeida

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-17 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-17 12:55 [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license Ulrich Hecht
2008-01-17 18:39 ` Stefan Weil
2008-01-17 18:45   ` M. Warner Losh
2008-01-17 18:55   ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-17 20:44     ` Ricardo Almeida [this message]
2008-01-17 21:07       ` M. Warner Losh
2008-01-17 21:29         ` Bill C. Riemers
2008-01-17 21:39           ` andrzej zaborowski
2008-01-17 22:31             ` Thiemo Seufer
2008-01-17 22:36               ` M. Warner Losh
2008-01-17 22:51                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-17 22:58                   ` M. Warner Losh
2008-01-17 22:56                 ` Thiemo Seufer
2008-01-17 23:19               ` andrzej zaborowski
2008-01-17 21:44           ` M. Warner Losh
2008-01-17 22:11             ` Thiemo Seufer
2008-01-17 22:09       ` Thiemo Seufer

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