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

[Gonglei (Arei)]

>
> From: John Snow [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2016 12:18 AM
> To: Frediano Ziglio; Qemu-devel
> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann; Peter Maydell; Gonglei (Arei); Cole Robinson
> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] ui/egl-helpers.c license and reuse
> 
> 
> 
> 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,"
> 
> 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.
> 
I just fixed a memory leak reported by Coverity.

It's okay to me :)

Regards,
-Gonglei