On 27/02/2026 00:04, Alistair Francis wrote:
Is new MIT code allowed in QEMU?Alistair
I believe so? if not then this will be a big barrier to contributing this code.
checkpatch.pl told me: "Saw acceptable license 'MIT' but note 'GPL-2.0-or-later' is preferred for new files unless the code is derived from a source file with an existing declared license that must be retained. Please explain the license choice in the commit message."
In this case "a source file with an existing declared license that must be retained" describes many of the files on our fork, since these are already published under the MIT license. (on our github repo)
I suppose perhaps you could interpret it as meaning only "a source file already in the repository".
Can someone clarify this please?
OpenPGP_0x7CBB20D40B55582C.asc
Description: OpenPGP public key
OpenPGP_signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
