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Re: [Qemu-devel] License issues
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Simson Garfinkel |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] License issues |
Date: |
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:43:53 -0700 |
On Aug 14, 2008, at 7:47 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
Simson Garfinkel wrote:
Greetings. Yesterday I posted a query regarding the license of some
of the .h files.
Basically, all of the image layer files area clearly licensed to
have no restrictions, but some of the necessary .h files are
missing that license.
Who is responsible for maintaining the license of the .h files?
Whoever originally committed the code. If you look at the LICENSE
file, I think the safe thing to assume is that if a file doesn't
have an explicit license associated with it, it is licensed under
the GPL.
Thanks for responding, Anthony.
I agree with the explicit statement. However, it doesn't seem to make
sense in this case. The disk image .c files are all explicitly
unrestricted, but they include .h files for which the license is
unstated. So my feeling is that this is an oversight.
Is this even relevant for .h files? They do not contain executable
code that is compiled.
The reason that I am asking is that I want to use the QEMU VDK support
for a forensic software library that I maintain, but I do not want the
library to be GPL'ed. If I need to, I'll rewrite the .h files, but
this seems like a waste of time if it is not necessary.
-Simson
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