[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] LICENSE: clarify licensing

[Anthony Liguori]

There's a couple changes here.  Please note that no one should consider this as
licensing guidance from IBM.  I'm merely updating this based on what I would
consider community consensus.

The first change clarifies that the overall license is GPLv2.  We have never
had GPLv1 code.  The phrase "GNU General Public License" clearly refers to the
GPLv2.  We cannot say the overall license is "GPLv2 or later" because we have
a number of files that are GPLv2 only.

The second change clarifies that any file that doesn't have an explicit license
is covered under the GPLv2.  This agrees with the first statement in LICENSE but
since it's so often asked, I thought we should make it explicit.

I also added an additional statement that this file only expresses the intent
of the QEMU community and should only be considered informative.

Please explicitly Nack or Ack this change.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>
---
 LICENSE | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index acae9a3..f4bee4c 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 The following points clarify the QEMU license:
 
-1) QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License
+1) QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License version 2
 
 2) Parts of QEMU have specific licenses which are compatible with the
 GNU General Public License. Hence each source file contains its own
@@ -13,4 +13,8 @@ Many hardware device emulation sources are released under the 
BSD license.
 
 4) QEMU is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard.
 
-Fabrice Bellard.
+5) Files without explicit licenses fall under the GPL v2.
+
+6) This file represents the consensus view of the QEMU community.  It does not
+   alter any licenses used in the code base and should be viewed as informative
+   only.
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