Re: [PATCH 2/3] hw/mem/cxl_type3: Add missing copyright and license notice

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

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.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 18 Sept 2023 at 16:04, Jonathan Cameron
> > > <Jonathan.Cameron@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.weiny@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.

With regards,
Daniel
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