Re: [PATCH-for-6.0] target/mips: Correct the license text

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 4/19/21 6:53 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 at 09:03, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> wrote:
>>
>> The license is the 'GNU General Public License v2.0 or later',
>> not 'and':
>>
>>   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/ori
>>   modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
>>   published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
>>   the License, or (at your option) any later version.
>>
>> Fix the license comment.
>>
>> Fixes: 3f7a927847a ("target/mips: LSA/DLSA R6 decodetree helpers")
>> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
>> ---
>> Commit introduced after 5.2 release, during the 6.0 cycle.
>> Harmless and useful for 6.0-rc4 IMHO.
>> ---
>>  target/mips/rel6_translate.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/target/mips/rel6_translate.c b/target/mips/rel6_translate.c
>> index 139a7524eea..c5843cbc5e2 100644
>> --- a/target/mips/rel6_translate.c
>> +++ b/target/mips/rel6_translate.c
>> @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
>>   *  Copyright (c) 2006 Thiemo Seufer (MIPS32R2 support)
>>   *  Copyright (c) 2020 Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
>>   *
>> - * This code is licensed under the GNU GPLv2 and later.
>> + * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
>>   */
>>
>>  #include "qemu/osdep.h"
> 
> I find this file's copyright/license comment a little confusing.
> Looking at the actual commits, it seems to be entirely your work,
> in which case you can put any (compatible) license you like on it.
> But the comment header suggests it includes some code copied from
> other files in target/mips and thus copyright by Thiemo and others:
> if that's so then it would seem more logical that this file be
> under the LGPL as older files like translate.c are.

I guess used a template with Thiemo and others by mistake, this file
is new and I wrote all the code content. I have no problem to change
it to LGPL.

Thanks,

Phil.