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Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license
From: |
Thiemo Seufer |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:56:44 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-12-11) |
M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <address@hidden>
> Thiemo Seufer <address@hidden> writes:
> : andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> : > On 17/01/2008, Bill C. Riemers <address@hidden> wrote:
> : > > According to section 9 of the GPL, you would only have to contact
> : > > contributors for code which specified version 2 of the GPL and not
> later...
> : >
> : > In order to relicense all of qemu, yes, plus contributors of
> : > BSD-licensed code, of which there is much more than GPLv2-licensed.
> :
> : Actually, re-licensing BSD code as GPL is legal (but not nice).
>
> No. It isn't. *ADDING* the GPL license to a 2-clause BSD licensed
> file is legal, but removing the BSD stuff is not allowed. It must be
> retained, per the BSD license.
In strictly legal terms you are right.
With re-licensing I meant "adding GPL licensed parts to otherwise
BSD-licensed code", which technically retains the original license
but makes it practically unusable.
A similiar case arises when relicensing "GPLv2 or later" code as
"GPL2 only". The original notice must be retained, but it isn't
of much use in practical terms.
Thiemo
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license, M. Warner Losh, 2008/01/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license, Johannes Schindelin, 2008/01/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license, Ricardo Almeida, 2008/01/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license, M. Warner Losh, 2008/01/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license, Bill C. Riemers, 2008/01/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license, andrzej zaborowski, 2008/01/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license, Thiemo Seufer, 2008/01/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license, M. Warner Losh, 2008/01/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license, Johannes Schindelin, 2008/01/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license, M. Warner Losh, 2008/01/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license,
Thiemo Seufer <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license, andrzej zaborowski, 2008/01/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license, M. Warner Losh, 2008/01/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license, Thiemo Seufer, 2008/01/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license, Thiemo Seufer, 2008/01/17