Re: [Qemu-devel] [edk2] EDK II & GPL - Re: OVMF BoF @ KVM Forum 2015

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 10/09/2015 08:57, Sharma Bhupesh wrote:
> So based on my limited understanding, can't the OVMF driver which
> uses features from some GPL based code, carry a dual license (GPL +
> x11 [MIT]),

No, that would require agreement from the original copyright holder,
which you are not going to get.

> like most device trees in Linux do now (including the
> Freescale ARMv8 DTS, see [1] for reference), thus allowing its usage 
> across both GPL and BSD based projects (like EDK2).
> 
> We already have examples of such dual-licensed code (libfdt) being
> used in BSD-licensed EDK2 (see [2] for details).

The dual BSD/GPL license is pointless, since you can already take
BSD-licensed code and distribute it under the GPL.  It just makes the
picture murkier without changing anything in practice.

Paolo

> In such a case we might not be required to create a separate GIT repo
> for the same.