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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] LICENSE: clarify licensing
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malc |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] LICENSE: clarify licensing |
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Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:30:30 +0400 (MSK) |
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Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) |
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Stefan Weil wrote:
> Am 19.11.2012 19:34, schrieb malc:
> > On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >
> > > On 19 November 2012 18:21, malc<address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > > > > +5) Files without explicit licenses fall under the GPL v2.
> > > >
> > > > I have issue with this, files without licenses are just that files
> > > > without licenses.
> > >
> > > If we believe this (and it seems a logical thing to believe)
> > > then QEMU's not distributable until we rewrite or remove or track
> > > down all authors for all the files without licenses...
> >
> > Yes.
>
> That can only be true if those files are older than LICENSE,
> or at least older than the commit which added
>
> "QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License". (2007)
>
> Any file or contribution which was added later (with or without a license
> clause)
> cannot invalidate this general license, so QEMU remains distributable.
>
I think you are mistaken, this just clarifies the redistributability of
the QEMU as a whole, given that it uses some code which has strong claims
(GPL) it as a whole must adhere to these. If it contains code that has no
license it just can not use that code, nothing GPL can do about it.
> Nevertheless fixing files without explicit license is desirable,
> of course.
>
> Stefan
>
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