Stefan Weil <s...@weilnetz.de> writes: > Am 24.08.2014 11:21, schrieb Michael Tokarev: >> Applied to -trivial, thank you! >> >> But I've a small concern - should we really do this on "external" sources, >> and divirge from upstream needlessly? >> >> Thanks, >> >> /mjt > > In general, I agree. In this case, the code was part of gcc, and newer > versions of gcc use GPL 3 which is incompatible with QEMU, so I assume > that the code in QEMU is no longer available from a maintained > upstream.
Upstream switched to another license != upstream is no longer maintained. If you license your contribution under GPLv2+, both upstream and downstream should be able to use it just fine. Have you checked the current upstream code for presence of these issues?
