Re: [Qemu-devel] Wrong license (GPL 2 only) for files in fsdev

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 10/10/2012 07:52, Stefan Weil ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> all files in fsdev still use GNU GPL version 2 only instead of
> GNU GPL  version 2 or later.

It's IBM copyright, so I think no.

> Can this be fixed? If not, we should addtext like this:
> 
> * Contributions after 2012-10-10 are licensed under the terms of the
> * GNU GPL, version 2 or (at your option) any later version.

Yes, that would be good.

> Is it possible to add some general statement to the QEMU license
> so that any file which is newly added and which uses GPL 2 is
> automatically GPL 2+? IMHO at least some remarks in CODING_STYLE
> would be good.

No, because in some cases there is GPLv2 code in the file, as was the
case for PCI device assignment.

Paolo