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Re: [Qemu-devel] GPLv3 troubles
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Andreas Färber |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] GPLv3 troubles |
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Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:07:27 +0200 |
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Am 17.10.2011 12:47, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
> On 10/17/2011 12:45 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
>> Could we please draft some policy on this? This is not a GDB issue, it's
>> very general. Whether we like it or not, there is GPLv3-licensed code
>> and there will probably be a GPLv4 one day.
>>
>> IMO having old GPLv2-only code is one thing. But there's a lot of new
>> GPLv2-only code cooking and occasionally pouring in, especially from
>> qemu-kvm. Device assignment is a current example I encountered.
>>
>> If we could make checkpatch.pl detect new GPLv2-only code, then I would
>> hope, given the dynamic QEMU development of the last few years, that the
>> GPLv2-only portions become so small (both in relation and absolute) that
>> they can either be replaced or the authors' permission be obtained to
>> change the license to GPLv2-or-later.
>
> That is close to impossible, you usually ask permission for all the
> authors in the history to avoid bigger problems.
I did refer to authors in history, in case that was unclear.
I was thinking of how much code we rewrote for TCG, qdev, etc. In the
end it'll depend on which files are affected, and I don't have a list -
hard to grep due to varying formulations and line breaks.
Andreas
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- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/7] target-xtensa: remove hand-written xtensa cores implementations, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] GPLv3 troubles (was: [PATCH 6/7] target-xtensa: add fsf core), Andreas Färber, 2011/10/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] GPLv3 troubles, Paolo Bonzini, 2011/10/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] GPLv3 troubles,
Andreas Färber <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] GPLv3 troubles, Paolo Bonzini, 2011/10/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] GPLv3 troubles, Andreas Färber, 2011/10/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] GPLv3 troubles, Peter Maydell, 2011/10/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] GPLv3 troubles, Anthony Liguori, 2011/10/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] GPLv3 troubles, Andreas Färber, 2011/10/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] GPLv3 troubles, Anthony Liguori, 2011/10/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] GPLv3 troubles, Peter Maydell, 2011/10/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] GPLv3 troubles, Stefan Weil, 2011/10/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] GPLv3 troubles, Anthony Liguori, 2011/10/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] GPLv3 troubles, Peter Maydell, 2011/10/17