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From: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] softfloat: rebase to version 2a
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To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>, Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>, Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>, Richard Sandiford <rdsandiford@googlemail.com>, Jocelyn Mayer <l_indien@magic.fr>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, Christophe Lyon <christophe.lyon@st.com>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>, malc <av1474@comtv.ru>, Avi Kivity <avi.kivity@gmail.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>, =?UTF-8?Q?Andreas_F=C3=A4rber?= <afaerber@suse.de>, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> The license of SoftFloat-2b is claimed to be GPLv2 incompatible by
> the FSF due to an indemnification clause.  The previous release,
> SoftFloat-2a, did not contain this clause.  The only changes between
> these two versions as far as QEMU is concerned is the license change
> and a global modification of the comment structure.  This patch rebases
> our softfloat code to SoftFloat-2a in order to have a GPLv2 compatible
> license.
...
> In order to make this change, we need to relicense all contributions
> from initial import of the SoftFloat code to match the license of
> SoftFloat-2a (instead of the implied SoftFloat-2b license).
>
> If you are on CC, it is because you have contributed to the softfloat
> code in QEMU.  Please response to this note with:
>
> Acked-by: Your Name <your@email.com>
>
> To significant that you are able and willing to relicense your changes
> to the SoftFloat-1a license (or a GPL compatible license).

Acked-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>

-- 
Thanks.
-- Max