Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Better support for dma_addr_t variables

[Peter Maydell]

On 3 April 2012 01:51, David Gibson <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 09:49:12AM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
>> Yes, the issue here is under what license the file is. It's a new file,
>> so in lack of a license statement is it under GPLv2 because QEMU as a
>> whole currently is?  Thus a header explicitly saying that it's under
>> GPLv2+ (or BSD or MIT/X11 or ...) would be appreciated to avoid further
>> complications. Compare our GPLv2+ relicensing page:
>>
>> http://wiki.qemu.org/Relicensing
>
> It's 4 trivial lines.  Well under the copyrightability threshold even
> by the paranoid estimates of IBM Legal.

(a) other legal departments may be more paranoid still
(b) how about when somebody else adds more code to the header later
(c) if a file has a clear license statement then it's immediately
obvious what the situation is. Why be ambigious when you can be clear?

-- PMM