andrzej zaborowski wrote: > On 17/01/2008, Bill C. Riemers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > According to section 9 of the GPL, you would only have to contact > > contributors for code which specified version 2 of the GPL and not later... > > In order to relicense all of qemu, yes, plus contributors of > BSD-licensed code, of which there is much more than GPLv2-licensed.
Actually, re-licensing BSD code as GPL is legal (but not nice). > But there's no reason to relicense qemu. AFAIK there's no problem > distributing qemu if it contains GPLv3, GPLv2 and BSD code just as > there was no problem until now with GPLv2 and BSD code. So I'm not > sure what this change helps. GPLv2 and GPLv3 have different provisions (e.g. the anti-DRM clause in GPLv3). Both exclude further restrictions of any sort. This makes them incompatible. Thiemo
