Re: [PATCH v5 10/20] docs/interop: Convert qemu-ga-ref to rST

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 13:01, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
> > The Sphinx interop manual has the usual footer:
> > https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/interop/index.html
> > "©2020, The QEMU Project Developers."
> >
> > The system manual has an explicit "License" section:
> > https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/license.html
> > but that's documenting the license of the program, not the
> > manual (it's docs/system/license.rst).
> >
> > We could do any or all of:
> >  * decide that we're happy with the current situation
> >  * expand the "copyright" footer to something like
> >    '©2020, The QEMU Project Developers; this manual is GPLv2'
> >  * have a docs/foo/license.rst for each manual, and expand
> >    it to mention the documentation license as well as the
> >    code license
> >
> > Given that the Texinfo generated QMP/QGA references don't
> > actually present this text to the reader, my inclination
> > is to say that this is something we should address in
> > a separate patchseries, not as part of this conversion.
>
> I think the manual should have a proper copyright notice.

It does -- that's the standard Sphinx footer that reads
"©2020, The QEMU Project Developers." What it's missing
is more precise licensing information.

> If you'd prefer to (re-)add it later, stick in TODO comment.

Where would you want a TODO to be ?

thanks
-- PMM