Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] LICENSE: clarify licensing

[Anthony Liguori]

malc <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Peter Maydell wrote:
>
>> On 19 November 2012 18:21, malc <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> >> +5) Files without explicit licenses fall under the GPL v2.
>> >
>> > I have issue with this, files without licenses are just that files
>> > without licenses.
>> 
>> If we believe this (and it seems a logical thing to believe)
>> then QEMU's not distributable until we rewrite or remove or track
>> down all authors for all the files without licenses...
>
> Yes.

That's ridiculous.

There has always been a LICENSE file with a catch-all clause going back
to at least 2005.

If a file doesn't have an explicit LICENSE, it falls under the catch all
clause.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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