Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] compiler: Swap 'public domain' header for license

[Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>]

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On 09/23/2016 10:02 AM, Felipe Franciosi wrote:
> As discussed on the list [1], having a comment stating that this file
> is "public domain" is arguably wrong and not legally binding. This patch
> replaces that comment with a clear GPLv2+ license as proposed in [2].
> 
> [1] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg06151.html
> [2] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg06217.html
> 
> Worth noting, compiler.h was originally created on 5c026320 by splitting
> qemu-common.h. At the time, qemu-common.h was already GPLv2+.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Felipe Franciosi <felipe@nutanix.com>
> ---
> v3: Explicitly call out 5c026320 on the commit message.
> v2: Add a GPLv2+ statement after removing 'public domain' text.
>     Amend the commit message and text to reflect it.
> 
>  include/qemu/compiler.h | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>

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