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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignmen
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Avi Kivity |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment |
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Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:52:19 +0300 |
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On 09/05/2012 06:41 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Avi Kivity <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On 09/05/2012 12:00 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Why? The way this is being submitted I don't see why we should treat
>>>> Jan's patch any different from a patch by IBM or Samsung where we've
>>>> asked folks to fix the license to comply with what I thought was our new
>>>> policy (it does not even contain a from-x-on-GPLv2+ notice).
>>>
>>> Asking is one thing. Requiring is another.
>>>
>>> I would prefer that people submitted GPLv2+, but I don't think it should
>>> be a hard requirement. It means, among other things, that we cannot
>>> accept most code that originates from the Linux kernel.
>>
>> We could extend this to "require unless there is a reason to grant an
>> exception" if we wanted to (not saying I know whether we want to or
>> not).
>
> I don't want QEMU to be GPLv3. I don't like the terms of the GPLv3.
>
> I don't mind GPLv2+, if people want to share code from QEMU in GPLv3
> projects, GPLv2+ enables that.
>
> But if new code is coming in and happens to be under GPLv2, that just
> means that the contribution cannot be used outside of QEMU in a GPLv3
> project. That's fine and that's a decision for the submitter to make.
Makes sense.
--
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment, (continued)
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment, Anthony Liguori, 2012/09/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment, Avi Kivity, 2012/09/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2012/09/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment, Anthony Liguori, 2012/09/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment,
Avi Kivity <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment, Blue Swirl, 2012/09/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment, Anthony Liguori, 2012/09/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment, Blue Swirl, 2012/09/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment, Anthony Liguori, 2012/09/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment, Andreas Färber, 2012/09/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment, Alexander Graf, 2012/09/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment, Blue Swirl, 2012/09/08
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment, Eric Blake, 2012/09/05
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment, Blue Swirl, 2012/09/05
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment, Avi Kivity, 2012/09/06