Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> writes: > On 30 January 2014 10:34, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: >> The scripts carry this copyright notice: >> >> # This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPLv2. >> # See the COPYING.LIB file in the top-level directory. >> >> The sentences contradict each other, as COPYING.LIB contains the LGPL >> 2.1. Michael Roth says this was a simple pasto, and he meant to refer >> COPYING. Let's fix that. > > LPGL2 specifically allows applying GPL2 terms, so this > is an easy fix that doesn't require us to get permission > from anybody...
Aha. >> Relicense to GPLv2+ while we're at it. > > ...so why tie it to a change that does require everybody > to engage the (potentially ponderous and slow) legal > machinery required to do a relicensing? I wasn't aware of the possibility of an easy fix, so I wanted to maximize the gain from the relicensing trouble. > It gains us > nothing as far as I can see because (as we've already > established) there's basically zero chance that QEMU > will go GPL2+ in future; we have too much 2-only code. It gains the QEMU project nothing. It may gain somebody else something: the ability to steal this code and put it to another use in free software compatible with 2+ but not 2-only. That's a social good.
