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From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-trivial@nongnu.org, qemu-s390x@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target/s390x: Fix LGPL version in the file header comments
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 09:01:01 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e3dfae55-8733-bd01-1f13-422f343fb258@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190129145156.6719b8a4.cohuck@redhat.com>

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On 1/29/19 7:51 AM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 14:37:47 +0100
> Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> It's either "GNU *Library* General Public License version 2" or
>> "GNU Lesser General Public License version *2.1*", but there was
>> no "version 2.0" of the "Lesser" license. So assume that version
>> 2.1 is meant here.
> 
> I think we can assume that.
> 
> Given that there have been several of these cases (and that there's a
> lot of boilerplate in general): Should we adopt SPDX license
> identifiers for QEMU, as the Linux kernel did? They also discovered and
> fixed some problems/oddities while at it.

I'm also in favor of SPDX license identifiers - their brevity and
machine-parsability favors more accurate usage and fewer copy/paste
mistake propagation.

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3226
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-01-30 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-29 13:37 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target/s390x: Fix LGPL version in the file header comments Thomas Huth
2019-01-29 13:51 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-01-29 15:05   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-01-30 15:01   ` Eric Blake [this message]
2019-01-30 15:18     ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-01-30 15:47       ` Cornelia Huck
2019-01-31 21:55     ` Richard Henderson
2019-01-30 10:04 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-trivial] " Laurent Vivier

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