Il 19/11/2012 17:40, Anthony Liguori ha scritto: > There's a couple changes here. Please note that no one should consider this > as > licensing guidance from IBM. I'm merely updating this based on what I would > consider community consensus. > > The first change clarifies that the overall license is GPLv2. We have never > had GPLv1 code. The phrase "GNU General Public License" clearly refers to the > GPLv2. We cannot say the overall license is "GPLv2 or later" because we have > a number of files that are GPLv2 only. > > The second change clarifies that any file that doesn't have an explicit > license > is covered under the GPLv2. This agrees with the first statement in LICENSE > but > since it's so often asked, I thought we should make it explicit.
No, files that don't have an explicit license are under "GPLv2 or later". > I also added an additional statement that this file only expresses the intent > of the QEMU community and should only be considered informative. > > Please explicitly Nack or Ack this change. > > Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aligu...@us.ibm.com> > --- > LICENSE | 8 ++++++-- > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE > index acae9a3..f4bee4c 100644 > --- a/LICENSE > +++ b/LICENSE > @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ > The following points clarify the QEMU license: > > -1) QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License > +1) QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License version 2 > > 2) Parts of QEMU have specific licenses which are compatible with the > GNU General Public License. Hence each source file contains its own > @@ -13,4 +13,8 @@ Many hardware device emulation sources are released under > the BSD license. > > 4) QEMU is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard. > > -Fabrice Bellard. > +5) Files without explicit licenses fall under the GPL v2. > + > +6) This file represents the consensus view of the QEMU community. It does > not > + alter any licenses used in the code base ... for individual files... > + and should be viewed as informative > + only. > Paolo