On Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:47:06 +0100 Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 02:14:40PM -0700, Ira Weiny wrote: > > Jonathan Cameron wrote: > > > On Mon, 18 Sep 2023 17:31:38 +0100 > > > Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, 18 Sept 2023 at 16:04, Jonathan Cameron > > > > <jonathan.came...@huawei.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > This has been missing from the start. Assume it should match > > > > > with cxl/cxl-component-utils.c as both were part of early > > > > > postings from Ben. > > > > > > > > Sounds plausible -- is there an Intel person who could give us > > > > an acked-by for this? > > > > While we are at it; what about .../hw/mem/cxl_type3_stubs.c? > > > > > > > > > > (Ideally we wouldn't have let more gpl-2-only code into the > > > > codebase without a rationale...) > > > > I'm curious about this statement. Does the qemu project not want gpl v2 > > only code? > > Correct, this is explicitly stated in the LICENSE file: > > [quote] > 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*. > [/quote] > > > I agree with Jonathan that this is the intention of Ben's > > initial submission; so from that PoV. > > Ideally we would get all QEMU CXL contributors to agree to re-license > to the GPL-2.0-or-later, unless the code has been copied from another > project which was GPL-2.0-only thus forcing our code. > > > > > Acked-by: Ira Weiny <ira.we...@intel.com> > > > > Going forward I'd like to better understand the qemu communities view. > > Please follow the LICENSE file which is explicit about QEMU's views > per the quoted text above. I'd be fine with relaxing these, but there are quite a few contributors so it will be a little difficult to establish. Given, for that to be useful we need to do all the CXL files, I'll post a v2 of this series setting this to GPL-v2-only and we can see if we can address relicencing at a later date. > > With regards, > Daniel
