On 12.11.2012, at 12:44, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > IBMs s390 contributions were meant to to be gplv2 or later (since > we were contributing to qemu). Several of the s390 specific files > link to gpl code anyway so the ones in qemu repository will have > a hard time being strictly LGPL. > So lets clarify the licence statement for new contributions for > those files that we have touched multiple times or will likely > touch again. > > Since we contributed only to KVM, this patch does not touch files > that mostly deal with tcg. Please tell me if I should do that for > the full target-s390x tree. > > The alternative would be to change the licence directly (no > contributions after but a 1:1 replacement) for the files in the > qemu repository. But that would require an agreement of all > contributors due to "v2" vs "v2 or later". Opinions?
Given that GPLv2 only code is compatible with LGPLv2+, can't you just declare all IBM s390x code to be GPLv2 only? Then the rest should solve itself automatically, no? But then again, I'm not a lawyer :). Alex