Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] relicense QEMU softfloat from 2b to to 2a

[Peter Maydell]

On 7 January 2015 at 11:04, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> On 07/01/2015 11:34, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> The thing is that after all these relicensings we end up with a
>> file with a mix of licenses in it. So for somebody actually
>> using the file the controlling license is GPLv2+. (In particular
>> all the RedHat contributions are GPLv2+, not SoftFloat-2a...)
>
> Actually, all four of us (I and Avi and Juan and Luiz) acked the change,
> so Red Hat contributions are SoftFloat-2a.

You said
# All Red Hat contributions (at least Avi, Juan, me; don't know about rth)
# are available under GPLv2+; also other authors agreed on it.  For this
# particular license,
# Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>

and Juan said:
# As said by paolo,  any contribution by me is under GPLv2+ O:-)

which I took to mean that the RH contribs were GPLv2+, not SF2a.

>> So it seemed simplest to say 'GPLv2+ for future changes'; but
>> it wouldn't make any major difference to pick softfloat-2a I guess
>> (and that is the license covering the bulk of the code so it
>> does make more sense in some ways).
>
> Yes, that was my reasoning.

Anyway, we can make the future-changes license sf2a regardless
of what license the RH contribs in the past are under (we have
the non-SF2a BSD contribs as well so the license of the whole
file is never going to be a single simple thing).

-- PMM