Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 2/3] qapi script: add support of event

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 13.12.2013 um 14:31 hat Eric Blake geschrieben:
> On 11/12/2013 06:44 PM, Wenchao Xia wrote:
> > +++ b/scripts/qapi-event.py
> > @@ -0,0 +1,355 @@
> > +#
> > +# QAPI event generator
> > +#
> > +# Copyright IBM, Corp. 2013
> > +#
> > +# Authors:
> > +#  Wenchao Xia <address@hidden>
> > +#
> > +# This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPLv2.
> 
> Can you please use GPLv2+ (that is, add the "or later" clause)?  We
> already have GPLv2-only code, but I don't want to increase the size of
> that unfortunate license choice.

In fact, it's even worse:

+# This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPLv2.
+# See the COPYING.LIB file in the top-level directory.

These two lines contradict each other, COPYING.LIB contains the
LGPL 2.1. The same bad license header is in the other QAPI generator
scripts, so it's only copy&paste here.

This doesn't make things easier, because if things are copied, the
license of the source must be respected. And it seems rather dubious to
me what this license actually is. If it's GPLv2-only, we can't just
change it in the new copy.

Kevin

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