Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/6] qdev: rework device properties.

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:05:22PM +0200, Stefan Weil wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 01:43:31PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > [...]
> >> diff --git a/hw/qdev-properties.c b/hw/qdev-properties.c
> >> new file mode 100644
> >> index 0000000..8b0d0ff
> >> --- /dev/null
> >> +++ b/hw/qdev-properties.c
> >> @@ -0,0 +1,246 @@
> >
> > Gerd, could you clarify what's the copyright/license of this file? (I
> > mean, at least the copyright/license of the initial version of the file
> > you wrote, below).
> >
> > I am CCing all other authors that touched the file (according to git
> > logs), so they can clarify what's the license they assumed for the file
> > and their contributions.
> 
> I prefer and assumed GPL2+ because that is kind of standard for many
> files of QEMU, but would not mind any other free licenses like
> LGPL2+, BSD or Public Domain for hw/qdev-properties.c

I suppose that's the usual assumption when the file doesn't have an
explicit license, as it's the license specified on the LICENSE file.

The only problem is that the LICENSE file doesn't specify the GPL
version, so it's a bit complicated. Some opinions can be found here:
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/122665>.

Unless every single author replies and accepts the adoption of another
license (which I find very unlikely), I plan to submit a patch adding a
GPLv2+ license header.

-- 
Eduardo