Re: [Qemu-devel] GPLv3 troubles

[Andreas Färber]

Am 17.10.2011 12:47, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
> On 10/17/2011 12:45 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
>> Could we please draft some policy on this? This is not a GDB issue, it's
>> very general. Whether we like it or not, there is GPLv3-licensed code
>> and there will probably be a GPLv4 one day.
>>
>> IMO having old GPLv2-only code is one thing. But there's a lot of new
>> GPLv2-only code cooking and occasionally pouring in, especially from
>> qemu-kvm. Device assignment is a current example I encountered.
>>
>> If we could make checkpatch.pl detect new GPLv2-only code, then I would
>> hope, given the dynamic QEMU development of the last few years, that the
>> GPLv2-only portions become so small (both in relation and absolute) that
>> they can either be replaced or the authors' permission be obtained to
>> change the license to GPLv2-or-later.
> 
> That is close to impossible, you usually ask permission for all the
> authors in the history to avoid bigger problems.

I did refer to authors in history, in case that was unclear.

I was thinking of how much code we rewrote for TCG, qdev, etc. In the
end it'll depend on which files are affected, and I don't have a list -
hard to grep due to varying formulations and line breaks.

Andreas

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