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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qapi: Fix licensing of scripts
From: |
Peter Maydell |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qapi: Fix licensing of scripts |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Jan 2014 10:42:16 +0000 |
On 30 January 2014 10:34, Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
> The scripts carry this copyright notice:
>
> # This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPLv2.
> # See the COPYING.LIB file in the top-level directory.
>
> The sentences contradict each other, as COPYING.LIB contains the LGPL
> 2.1. Michael Roth says this was a simple pasto, and he meant to refer
> COPYING. Let's fix that.
LPGL2 specifically allows applying GPL2 terms, so this
is an easy fix that doesn't require us to get permission
from anybody...
> Relicense to GPLv2+ while we're at it.
...so why tie it to a change that does require everybody
to engage the (potentially ponderous and slow) legal
machinery required to do a relicensing? It gains us
nothing as far as I can see because (as we've already
established) there's basically zero chance that QEMU
will go GPL2+ in future; we have too much 2-only code.
thanks
-- PMM