[Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license

2008-01-17 Thread Ulrich Hecht
Hi! Our Teenage Mutant Legal Turtles have discovered that s390-dis.c contains GPLv3 code. Fortunately, the actual code has not changed since the last GPLv2 binutils release, save for the license headers, so it suffices to change those back to fix the problem. CU Uli -- SUSE LINUX Products

Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license

2008-01-17 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Stefan Weil wrote: Is GPLv3 unwanted for QEMU source code? If yes: why? The problem is: you would have to ask every contributor whose code is still somewhere in the source code. That is tedious, and takes time (I do not even think that an email would suffice).

Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license

2008-01-17 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stefan Weil [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Is GPLv3 unwanted for QEMU source code? If yes: why? : Would it prevent inclusion of QEMU in common Linux distributions? There's still some gplv2-only code in qemu, iirc. As such, you can't use gplv3 code at all

Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license

2008-01-17 Thread Stefan Weil
Is GPLv3 unwanted for QEMU source code? If yes: why? Would it prevent inclusion of QEMU in common Linux distributions? Stefan Ulrich Hecht schrieb: Hi! Our Teenage Mutant Legal Turtles have discovered that s390-dis.c contains GPLv3 code. Fortunately, the actual code has not changed since the

Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license

2008-01-17 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ricardo Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : The problem is: you would have to ask every contributor whose code is : still somewhere in the source code. That is tedious, and takes time (I do : not even think that an email would suffice). : : From what

Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license

2008-01-17 Thread Ricardo Almeida
The problem is: you would have to ask every contributor whose code is still somewhere in the source code. That is tedious, and takes time (I do not even think that an email would suffice). From what I read once in a slashdot post (it's worth what is worth), it suffices a public announcement

Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license

2008-01-17 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Ricardo Almeida wrote: The problem is: you would have to ask every contributor whose code is still somewhere in the source code. That is tedious, and takes time (I do not even think that an email would suffice). From what I read once in a slashdot post (it's worth what is worth), it

Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license

2008-01-17 Thread Thiemo Seufer
M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill C. Riemers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : According to section 9 of the GPL, you would only have to contact : contributors for code which specified version 2 of the GPL and not later... I said exactly this in a previous

Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license

2008-01-17 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill C. Riemers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : According to section 9 of the GPL, you would only have to contact : contributors for code which specified version 2 of the GPL and not later... I said exactly this in a previous message. At one point I recalled

Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license

2008-01-17 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 17/01/2008, Bill C. Riemers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to section 9 of the GPL, you would only have to contact contributors for code which specified version 2 of the GPL and not later... In order to relicense all of qemu, yes, plus contributors of BSD-licensed code, of which there is

Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license

2008-01-17 Thread Bill C. Riemers
According to section 9 of the GPL, you would only have to contact contributors for code which specified version 2 of the GPL and not later... e.g. * Copyright (c) 2003-2005 Fabrice Bellard * * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the

Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license

2008-01-17 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thiemo Seufer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : andrzej zaborowski wrote: : On 17/01/2008, Bill C. Riemers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : According to section 9 of the GPL, you would only have to contact :

Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license

2008-01-17 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Johannes Schindelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Hi, : : On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, M. Warner Losh wrote: : : In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Thiemo Seufer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : andrzej zaborowski wrote: : : On 17/01/2008, Bill C.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license

2008-01-17 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 17/01/2008, Thiemo Seufer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: andrzej zaborowski wrote: On 17/01/2008, Bill C. Riemers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to section 9 of the GPL, you would only have to contact contributors for code which specified version 2 of the GPL and not later... In

Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] s390-dis.c license

2008-01-17 Thread Thiemo Seufer
andrzej zaborowski wrote: On 17/01/2008, Bill C. Riemers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to section 9 of the GPL, you would only have to contact contributors for code which specified version 2 of the GPL and not later... In order to relicense all of qemu, yes, plus contributors of