Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add TPM support

[Thomas Bleher]

* Thiemo Seufer <address@hidden> [2007-10-31 17:14]:
> Thomas Bleher wrote:
> > * Thiemo Seufer <address@hidden> [2007-10-31 13:54]:
> > > Thomas Bleher wrote:
> > > > --- /dev/null
> > > > +++ b/hw/tpm.c
> > > > @@ -0,0 +1,219 @@
> > > > +/*
> > > > + * TPM emulation
> > > > + * Written by Thomas Bleher <address@hidden>.
> > > > + *
> > > > + * This driver emulates a TPM chip. TPM chips are quite complex, and a 
> > > > TPM
> > > > + * emulator already exists, therefore this driver just connects to this
> > > > + * emulator and forwards all the data. For the TPM emulator project, 
> > > > see
> > > > + * http://tpm-emulator.berlios.de/
> > > > + *
> > > > + * The author does not own any TPM chip himself, so the Linux Kernel 
> > > > driver for
> > > > + * Atmel TPM chips was taken as a reference. The code works fine with 
> > > > the Linux
> > > > + * driver, but no tests have been done on other operating systems.
> > > > + *
> > > > + * Some structures are copied from the Linux Kernel source code.
> > > > + */
> > > 
> > > So the License of this file is "GPL, Version 2"? The license should be
> > > mentioned in the comment.
> > 
> > I think that the parts I copied are not copyrightable, as I only copied
> > the two enums (I didn't copy any structures, the comment was wrong) and,
> > modulo naming, I see no other way to implement this.
> 
> Ok, so the Kernel license isn't relevant here.
> 
> > So I would be willing to license this under a more liberal license, but
> > to be on the safe side, GNU GPLv2 is the best choice.
> 
> I didn't intend to enforce GPL licensing, I just concluded from the
> description that the patch would include substantial parts of kernel
> source code. Since this isn't the case, feel free to choose your
> preferred license for it.

Is there a preferred license for qemu? I see that the code as a whole is
licensed under the GPLv2, but some code is under the LGPL or some BSD
license. I'm willing to license it under whatever license suits qemu
best.

Regards,
Thomas

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