Since 2008 the tcg/LICENSE file has not changed: it claims that everything under tcg/ is BSD-licensed.
This is not true and hasn't been true for years: in 2013 we accepted the tcg/aarch64 target code under a GPLv2-or-later license statement. We also have generic vector optimisation code under the LGPL2.1-or-later, and the TCI backend is GPLv2-or-later. Further, many of the files are not BSD licensed but MIT licensed. We don't really consider the tcg subdirectory to be a distinct part of QEMU anyway. Remove the LICENSE file, since claiming false information about the license of the code is confusing. Update the main project LICENSE file also to be clearer about the licenses used by TCG. Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> --- Changes v1->v2: changed wording of new para 3 in top level LICENSE file, since I noticed that we actually have a lot of MIT-licensed code in tcg/ too. --- LICENSE | 5 +++-- tcg/LICENSE | 3 --- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 tcg/LICENSE diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE index 9389ba614f8..f19b018486a 100644 --- a/LICENSE +++ b/LICENSE @@ -18,8 +18,9 @@ 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*. -3) The Tiny Code Generator (TCG) is released under the BSD license - (see license headers in files). +3) The Tiny Code Generator (TCG) is mostly under the BSD or MIT licenses; + but some parts may be GPLv2 or other licenses. Again, see the + specific licensing information in each source file. 4) QEMU is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard. diff --git a/tcg/LICENSE b/tcg/LICENSE deleted file mode 100644 index be817fa1625..00000000000 --- a/tcg/LICENSE +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -All the files in this directory and subdirectories are released under -a BSD like license (see header in each file). No other license is -accepted. -- 2.20.1
