Re: [Qemu-devel] Clearing slirp/ license

[Shan Gavin]

> I noticed that ncsi-pkt.h has "Copyright Gavin Shan, IBM Corporation 2016"
>
> I suppose Gavin should also give his agreement to relicense the file.
>
>
> Gavin, could you reply that you have no objection in relicensing
> ncsi-pkt.h as 3-Clause BSD?

No objection. Please go ahead with the relicensing.

Cheers,
Gavin


Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden> 于2019年3月12日周二 下午2:03写道：

> Gavig left the company sometime ago, cc:ing his gmail.
>
>
> On 12/03/2019 05:01, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > Hi Cédric, Gavin,
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 4:23 PM Cédric Le Goater <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> > I noticed that ncsi-pkt.h has "Copyright Gavin Shan, IBM Corporation
> 2016"
> >
> > I suppose Gavin should also give his agreement to relicense the file.
> >
> >
> > Gavin, could you reply that you have no objection in relicensing
> > ncsi-pkt.h as 3-Clause BSD?
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >>
> >> 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
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
>
> --
> Alexey
>