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


From: Markus Armbruster
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] ui/egl-helpers.c license and reuse
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 10:55:44 +0100
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Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> 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

This specific case looks as non-copyrightable to me as they get.

> 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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