On 1 September 2016 at 13:59, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 01/09/2016 13:19, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 1 September 2016 at 12:11, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> 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
