Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] compiler: Drop 'public domain' header from file

[Felipe Franciosi]

> On 23 Sep 2016, at 14:24, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On 23 September 2016 at 13:51, Felipe Franciosi <address@hidden> wrote:
>> As discussed on the list [1], having a comment stating that this file
>> is "public domain" is arguably wrong and not legally binding. By
>> removing this statement from the header, the file is under the
>> project-wide GPLv2+ license.
>> 
>> [1] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg06151.html
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Felipe Franciosi <address@hidden>
>> ---
>> include/qemu/compiler.h | 2 --
>> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/include/qemu/compiler.h b/include/qemu/compiler.h
>> index 338d3a6..9d6d09b 100644
>> --- a/include/qemu/compiler.h
>> +++ b/include/qemu/compiler.h
>> @@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
>> -/* public domain */
>> -
>> #ifndef COMPILER_H
>> #define COMPILER_H
> 
> Can we have a comment specifically saying what license it is under,
> please? Something like
> 
> /* compiler.h: macros to abstract away compiler specifics
> *
> * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
> * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
> */

I'm not against that, but the consensus seems to be that what's currently in 
LICENSE is clear enough:
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=blob_plain;f=LICENSE;hb=HEAD

2) ... Source files with no licensing information
are released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or (at your
option) any later version.

Thanks,
Felipe

> 
> thanks
> -- PMM