Re: [Qemu-devel] ui/egl-helpers.c license and reuse

[Eric Blake]

On 12/06/2016 10:18 AM, John Snow wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12/06/2016 10:47 AM, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
>> Hi,
>>   I work in the SPICE team (www.spice-space.org). I'd like to reuse some 
>> code from
>> this file for some test for our project. The license of the 2 projects are a 
>> bit
>> different (GPL2 against LGPL2) so in theory I couldn't do it.
>> The code is mainly doing EGL initialization.
>> Could I obtain a dispensation to reuse to code as LGPL2 ?
>> Alternatively where can I get similar code with compatible LGPL2 license ?
>>
>> Regards,
>>   Frediano
>>
> 
> "IANAL,"

Ditto

> 
> Looks like the file was authored by four people with no explicit
> license, so it defaulted to GPL2.
> 
> Cole Robinson, Gerd Hoffman, Gonglei, and Peter Maydell.
> 
> Maybe you can get explicit permission from these four.

Markus Armbruster also has a one-line deletion (although how can a line
no longer present in the file be holding up a copyright question?). It
depends on whether you use 'git blame' to track all contributors to the
current state of the file, or 'git log' to track all authors to any
changes to the file.  'git blame' may also come in handy if you only
need to copy a subset of the file.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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