Hi Cédric, Gavin,

On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 4:23 PM Cédric Le Goater <c...@kaod.org> wrote:
>
> On 2/13/19 12:03 PM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > As we are trying to move slirp/ in a standalone project, which
> > eventually could be installed as a shared library, we need to clear
> > the license.
> >
> > slirp is supposed to be 3-Clause BSD license (according to
> > https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=2f5f89963186d42a7ded253bc6cf5b32abb45cec)
> > but it seems to be effectively a 2-Clause BSD (the third clause is not
> > in COPYRIGHT)
> >
> > However, there are two units that are GPL-2:
> >
> > - dhcpv6.c, dhcpv6.h:
> >   The code was contributed by Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com>
> >
> > $ git shortlog -nes slirp/dhcpv6.{c,h}
> >      6  Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lur...@redhat.com>
> >      1  Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4...@amsat.org>
> >      1  Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com>
> >      1  Yuval Shaia <yuval.sh...@oracle.com>
> >
> > - ncsi.c, ncsi-pkt.h:
> >   The code was contributed by Cédric Le Goater <c...@kaod.org>
> >
> > $ git shortlog -nes slirp/ncsi.c slirp/ncsi-pkt.h
> >      5  Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lur...@redhat.com>
> >      4  Cédric Le Goater <c...@kaod.org>
> >
> > Could you reply that you have no objection in relicensing those files
> > are 3-Clause BSD?
>
> Fine for me. You can change the license of slirp/ncsi.c and
> slirp/ncsi-pkt.hto a 3-Clause BSD.

I noticed that ncsi-pkt.h has "Copyright Gavin Shan, IBM Corporation 2016"

I suppose Gavin should also give his agreement to relicense the file.


Gavin, could you reply that you have no objection in relicensing
ncsi-pkt.h as 3-Clause BSD?


Thanks

>
> Thanks,
>
> C.
>
> > After "[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] slirp: make it a standalone project",
> > the vmstate subset that I adapted would also need to be relicensed.
> > There are more contributors here, I am not sure how it should be
> > handled. Any idea?
> >
> > thanks
> >
>


-- 
Marc-André Lureau

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