Am 31.07.2013 03:50, schrieb Erik de Castro Lopo: > Hi all, > > I have a patch I would like to submit and I am currently running it past > my employer's legal department. The legal department has identified 10 > different licenses in the Qemu codebase and has asked about the two files > I am modifying: > > linux-user/syscall.c > linux-user/syscall_defs.h > > For the first its easy as it is clearly marked as GPLv2+. The second is > unmarked. Is there some blanket statement somewhere that all files that > are not explicitly marked are under say GPLv2+? > > Cheers, > Erik
No, there is no such statement. There is an agreement that files with GPL should be GPLv2+ (not only GPLv2), but files may also use other free licenses. In file LICENSE, it is said that QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License. Some files are copied from Linux and therefore must use the Linux license (usually GPLv2). syscall_defs.h might be a copy from Linux (=> GPLv2). If not, the default rule from LICENSE could be applied (=> GPL). Regards, Stefan
