Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/8] slirp: relicense GPL files to BSD-3

[Cédric Le Goater]

On 3/14/19 2:10 PM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> In order to make slirp a standalone project, the project must have a
> clear license, and be compatible with the GPL or LGPL.
> 
> Since commit 2f5f89963186d42a7ded253bc6cf5b32abb45cec ("Remove the
> advertising clause from the slirp license"), slirp is BSD-3. But new
> files have been added under slirp/ with QEMU GPL license since then.
> 
> The copyright holders have been asked to relicense files to BSD-3 and
> gave their permission:
> 
> - slirp/dhcpv6.{c,h}
> 
> Subject: Re: Clearing slirp/ license
> To: "Marc-André Lureau" <address@hidden>, QEMU <address@hidden>, Thomas Huth 
> <address@hidden>
> Cc: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>, Samuel Thibault <address@hidden>
> References: <address@hidden>
> From: "Cédric Le Goater" <address@hidden>
> Message-ID: <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 16:23:25 +0100
> 
>> Could you reply that you have no objection in relicensing those files
>> are 3-Clause BSD?
> 
> Fine for me. You can change the license of slirp/ncsi.c and
> slirp/ncsi-pkt.hto a 3-Clause BSD.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> C.
> 
> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Clearing slirp/ license
> To: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>, Shan Gavin <address@hidden>
> Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden>, "Marc-André Lureau" 
> <address@hidden>, Gavin Shan <address@hidden>, Thomas Huth <address@hidden>, 
> QEMU <address@hidden>, Samuel Thibault <address@hidden>
> References: <address@hidden> <address@hidden> <address@hidden> 
> <address@hidden> <address@hidden> <address@hidden>
> From: "Cédric Le Goater" <address@hidden>
> Message-ID: <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 11:49:21 +0100
> 
>> Is the code in question copyright you personally, or copyright
>> IBM as your employer at the time ? If the latter, it is IBM that
>> would need to approve the relicensing.
> 
> That was done. I had our legal team approve the change of license.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> C.
> 
> From: Shan Gavin <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 15:04:54 +0800
> Message-ID: <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Clearing slirp/ license
> To: Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Marc-André Lureau" <address@hidden>, "Cédric Le Goater" 
> <address@hidden>, address@hidden, Peter Maydell <address@hidden>, Thomas Huth 
> <address@hidden>, QEMU <address@hidden>, Samuel Thibault <address@hidden>
> 
>> Gavin, could you reply that you have no objection in relicensing
>> ncsi-pkt.h as 3-Clause BSD?
> 
> No objection. Please go ahead with the relicensing.
> 
> Cheers,
> Gavin
> 
> - ncsi.c, ncsi-pkt.h

for the NC-SI files,

Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <address@hidden>

Thanks,

C.