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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



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