Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> 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.