From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51738) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cEIRd-0006bZ-Li for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2016 11:18:18 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cEIRZ-000859-Mo for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2016 11:18:17 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:52682) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cEIRZ-00084x-GA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2016 11:18:13 -0500 References: <2011630530.2430235.1481039230635.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> From: John Snow Message-ID: Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 11:18:10 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2011630530.2430235.1481039230635.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] ui/egl-helpers.c license and reuse List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Frediano Ziglio , Qemu-devel Cc: Gerd Hoffmann , Peter Maydell , Gonglei , Cole Robinson On 12/06/2016 10:47 AM, Frediano Ziglio wrote: > Hi, > I work in the SPICE team (www.spice-space.org). I'd like to reuse some code from > this file for some test for our project. The license of the 2 projects are a bit > different (GPL2 against LGPL2) so in theory I couldn't do it. > The code is mainly doing EGL initialization. > Could I obtain a dispensation to reuse to code as LGPL2 ? > Alternatively where can I get similar code with compatible LGPL2 license ? > > Regards, > Frediano > "IANAL," Looks like the file was authored by four people with no explicit license, so it defaulted to GPL2. Cole Robinson, Gerd Hoffman, Gonglei, and Peter Maydell. Maybe you can get explicit permission from these four. --js