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Re: [Qemu-devel] GPLv3 troubles


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] GPLv3 troubles
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:31:58 +0200
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On 10/18/2011 05:19 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
On 18 October 2011 14:03, Anthony Liguori<address@hidden>  wrote:
Okay, let's get serious about it.  I set up the following wiki page for
coordination:

http://wiki.qemu.org/Relicensing

This says:
use the following git command to get a list of authors:

git log --format:"%an<%ae>" -- file.c

which (apart from having a typo) only lists the people who were
the git commit authors. This isn't the same as everybody who might
have copyright on the change. There are certainly commits in the
omap support which have gone through several people (listed in
the Signed-off-by: lines) who all have copyright-authorship even
if they're not git-commit-authors.

Yes, also just to get it written somewhere: the list of copyright holders is merely indicative.

Anyway, unfortunately this is, I think, a lost battle. For linux-user there's too much Linux kernel code. It would still be nice to not introduce more GPLv2-only code, but don't hold your breath...

Paolo



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