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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] LICENSE: clarify licensing
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Paolo Bonzini |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] LICENSE: clarify licensing |
Date: |
Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:14:32 +0100 |
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Il 19/11/2012 17:40, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
> There's a couple changes here. Please note that no one should consider this
> as
> licensing guidance from IBM. I'm merely updating this based on what I would
> consider community consensus.
>
> The first change clarifies that the overall license is GPLv2. We have never
> had GPLv1 code. The phrase "GNU General Public License" clearly refers to the
> GPLv2. We cannot say the overall license is "GPLv2 or later" because we have
> a number of files that are GPLv2 only.
>
> The second change clarifies that any file that doesn't have an explicit
> license
> is covered under the GPLv2. This agrees with the first statement in LICENSE
> but
> since it's so often asked, I thought we should make it explicit.
No, files that don't have an explicit license are under "GPLv2 or later".
> I also added an additional statement that this file only expresses the intent
> of the QEMU community and should only be considered informative.
>
> Please explicitly Nack or Ack this change.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>
> ---
> LICENSE | 8 ++++++--
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
> index acae9a3..f4bee4c 100644
> --- a/LICENSE
> +++ b/LICENSE
> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
> The following points clarify the QEMU license:
>
> -1) QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License
> +1) QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License version 2
>
> 2) Parts of QEMU have specific licenses which are compatible with the
> GNU General Public License. Hence each source file contains its own
> @@ -13,4 +13,8 @@ Many hardware device emulation sources are released under
> the BSD license.
>
> 4) QEMU is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard.
>
> -Fabrice Bellard.
> +5) Files without explicit licenses fall under the GPL v2.
> +
> +6) This file represents the consensus view of the QEMU community. It does
> not
> + alter any licenses used in the code base
... for individual files...
> + and should be viewed as informative
> + only.
>
Paolo