On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 17:26, Richard Henderson <richard.hender...@linaro.org> wrote: > > On 10/21/19 8:52 AM, Richard Henderson wrote: > > On 10/21/19 7:58 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: > >> 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 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, and update > >> the main project LICENSE file also to be clearer about > >> the license used by TCG. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> > >> --- > >> This patch takes the simple approach of just documenting > >> the de-facto current reality; does anybody want to argue > >> for something else? Other possibilities I guess would be > >> specifically documenting tcg/aarch64 as an accidental > >> exception to the general licensing rule for tcg/, or even > >> trying to get it relicensed. > >> > >> Does having tcg/ be BSD-licensed gain the project anything? > >> From my point of view I don't really see it as a cleanly > >> separable module of code -- it's quite tightly integrated > >> with the rest of QEMU, including code in accel/tcg which > >> is variously GPL or LGPL. > > > > I think this is the best solution. I've never been convinced that TCG can > > usefully be extracted and reused for something else. > > > > Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.hender...@linaro.org> > > Queued to tcg-next, as I think there's a couple of other things pending.
As a licensing issue, I think it would be better to have it on-list for review/comment by interested people for a bit longer than that -- it's not like it really needs to get in before the softfreeze. thanks -- PMM
