Stefan Hajnoczi writes: [...] >> > So I tried trimming down the list of files needed to compile >> > qemu tools, and here is a list: >> >> > Easy to relicense to LGPLv2+: >> > block/raw.c none (GPLv2+: Red Hat, IBM) >> > error.c LGPLv2 (Red Hat, IBM, Stefan Weil) >> > iov.c GPLv2 (Red Hat, SuSE/Hannes Reinecke, >> > Michael Tokarev) >> > module.c GPLv2 (Red Hat, IBM, Blue Swirl) >> > qemu-error.c GPLv2+ (Red Hat, Blue Swirl, IBM) >> > trace/control.c GPLv2 (Lluis Vilanova) >> > trace/default.c GPLv2 (Lluis Vilanova) >> >> > (I added some people to Cc. Lluis and Michael, can you also look at >> > http://wiki.qemu.org/Relicensing if you're willing to relicense >> > your past contributions from GPLv2 to GPLv2+?. Blue Swirl said >> > he'd accept any other GPLv2 or GPLv3 compatible license, which >> > should include LGPLv2+). >> >> I have no problems relicensing to "GPLv2 or later" or "GPLv3 or later".
> What about LGPLv2+? (Note the "L".) I'd prefer to keep it non-lesser. Is it absolutely necessary? PS: I suppose the "+" stands for "or later" Lluis -- "And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer." -- The Princess of Pure Reason, as told by Norton Juster in The Phantom Tollbooth