Re: [Qemu-devel] Clearing slirp/ license

[Cédric Le Goater]

On 2/13/19 12:03 PM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As we are trying to move slirp/ in a standalone project, which
> eventually could be installed as a shared library, we need to clear
> the license.
> 
> slirp is supposed to be 3-Clause BSD license (according to
> https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=2f5f89963186d42a7ded253bc6cf5b32abb45cec)
> but it seems to be effectively a 2-Clause BSD (the third clause is not
> in COPYRIGHT)
> 
> However, there are two units that are GPL-2:
> 
> - dhcpv6.c, dhcpv6.h:
>   The code was contributed by Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
> 
> $ git shortlog -nes slirp/dhcpv6.{c,h}
>      6  Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden>
>      1  Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>
>      1  Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
>      1  Yuval Shaia <address@hidden>
> 
> - ncsi.c, ncsi-pkt.h:
>   The code was contributed by Cédric Le Goater <address@hidden>
> 
> $ git shortlog -nes slirp/ncsi.c slirp/ncsi-pkt.h
>      5  Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden>
>      4  Cédric Le Goater <address@hidden>
> 
> 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. 

> After "[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] slirp: make it a standalone project",
> the vmstate subset that I adapted would also need to be relicensed.
> There are more contributors here, I am not sure how it should be
> handled. Any idea?
> 
> thanks
>