Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] README: fill out some useful quickstart information

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 17/09/2015 13:03, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> +
> +Licensing
> +=========
> +
> +  - QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License, 
> version 2.
> +
> +  - Parts of QEMU have specific licenses which are compatible with the GNU
> +    General Public License, version 2. Hence each source file contains its 
> own
> +    licensing information. Source files with no licensing information are
> +    released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or (at your
> +    option) any later version. As of July 2013, contributions under version
> +    2 of the GNU General Public License (and no later version) are only
> +    accepted for the following files or directories: bsd-user/, linux-user/,
> +    hw/misc/vfio.c, hw/xen/xen_pt*.
> +
> +  - The Tiny Code Generator (TCG) is released under the BSD license (see
> +    license headers in files).
> +
> +  - QEMU is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard.
> +
> +For additional information on QEMU licensing consult:
> +
> +  http://qemu-project.org/License

As mentioned by Peter, this text and this URL are a duplicate of the
LICENSE file.  I would just put a tl;dr in the README file, like this:

  QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
  version 2.  Parts of QEMU have specific licenses which are compatible
  with the GNU General Public License, version 2.

  For additional information on QEMU licensing see the LICENSE file.

Paolo