On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Stefan Weil <s...@weilnetz.de> wrote: > Am 17.10.2011 18:47, schrieb Anthony Liguori: >> >> On 10/17/2011 11:30 AM, Andreas Färber wrote: >>> >>> Am 17.10.2011 16:17, schrieb Anthony Liguori: >>>> >>>> On 10/17/2011 07:50 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On 10/17/2011 02:38 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Could we please draft some policy on this? This is not a GDB issue, >>>>>>> it's >>>>>>> very general. Whether we like it or not, there is GPLv3-licensed code >>>>>>> and there will probably be a GPLv4 one day. >>>>>> >>>>>> I don't see anything wrong with GPLv2 only. While I don't think >>>>>> there's >>>>>> anything wrong with GPLv3, I think that "or later" is a dangerous >>>>>> clause >>>>>> to add. >>>>> >>>>> License fragmentation with respect to the de facto standard toolchain >>>>> (binutils) >>>>> is wrong. >>>> >>>> Fragmentation with respect to the de factor standard kernel (Linux) is >>>> wrong. >>> >>> Tell that to the GNU and FSF people. :) >>> >>> In my personal opinion, Open Source licenses should preserve our >>> freedom, not make us unnecessarily duplicate code. >>> >>> I'm just asking to not make the situation worse than it is. >> >> It's not something that any one person can really change. It would >> require a very large effort. To give you an idea of the scope, I ran the >> following command: >> >> $ grep GPL *.c hw/*.c | grep -v 'or later' | cut -f1 -d: | sort -u | >> while read i; do echo $i; git log --format=" %an <%ae>" $i | sort -u; done >> >> Here's the results. All of these people would have to explicitly SoB a >> relicense of that specific file to include a "v2 or later" clause. In some >> cases, there's code from Thiemo which cannot be relicensed due to his >> untimely passing. > > > So let's start. For any of my contributions, I agree to GPL v2 or later. > Later generations should have the possibility to replace GPL v2 by > something which matches future requirements.
Me too, I'd also accept any other GPL v2 or v3 compatible licenses. > I'd appreciate if no new files were published with GPL v2 only. This could be more difficult. > Stefan W. > > PS. I no longer use my old email address because Berlios > will be closed on 2011-12-31, see http://www.berlios.de/. > >