Re: [Qemu-devel] Implementation of BusLogic SCSI host adapter (BT-958)

[Peter Maydell]

On 1 September 2016 at 13:59, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 01/09/2016 13:19, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 1 September 2016 at 12:11, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> That said, this looks very much like VirtualBox code.  Do not use it if
>>> you want to contribute code to QEMU, because QEMU does not accept
>>> GPLv2-only code.
>>
>> I don't think this is the consensus view. We'd prefer v2-or-later,
>> sure, but we haven't stopped taking v2-only code if that's all
>> we have.
>
> Yes, I was simplifying a bit.  LICENSE says: "As of July 2013,
> contributions under version 2 of the GNU General Public License (and no
> later version) are only accepted for the following files or directories:
> bsd-user/, linux-user/, hw/vfio/, hw/xen/xen_pt*".

I don't personally see the point in restricting to those
directories. We are in practice never going be able to relicense
to v2+ for the whole of QEMU.

thanks
-- PMM