Am 17.10.2011 12:47, schrieb Paolo Bonzini: > On 10/17/2011 12:45 PM, Andreas Färber wrote: >> Could we please draft some policy on this? This is not a GDB issue, it's >> very general. Whether we like it or not, there is GPLv3-licensed code >> and there will probably be a GPLv4 one day. >> >> IMO having old GPLv2-only code is one thing. But there's a lot of new >> GPLv2-only code cooking and occasionally pouring in, especially from >> qemu-kvm. Device assignment is a current example I encountered. >> >> If we could make checkpatch.pl detect new GPLv2-only code, then I would >> hope, given the dynamic QEMU development of the last few years, that the >> GPLv2-only portions become so small (both in relation and absolute) that >> they can either be replaced or the authors' permission be obtained to >> change the license to GPLv2-or-later. > > That is close to impossible, you usually ask permission for all the > authors in the history to avoid bigger problems.
I did refer to authors in history, in case that was unclear. I was thinking of how much code we rewrote for TCG, qdev, etc. In the end it'll depend on which files are affected, and I don't have a list - hard to grep due to varying formulations and line breaks. Andreas -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer; HRB 16746, AG Nürnberg
