On Thursday, October 8, 2020, Daniel P. Berrangé
wrote:
>Removing existing license text is legally dubious if you are >not the
>exclusive copyright on the file being changed. Yes, the >kernel did it,
>but there was legal work behind the scenes before that >was done.
Thanks Daniel, I won't be pro
On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 02:10:01PM +0530, Chetan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'll be working on replacing the license text in LGPL licensed files with
> the SPDX identifier tag and will submit it as a separate patch.
Removing existing license text is legally dubious if you are not the
exclusive copyright
On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 2:18 PM Thomas Huth wrote:
>I'm also not sure whether it's legally possible to replace the license text
>without agreement of all authors of the file ... so better don't do a
global
>patch for that right now, start with one subsystem instead and see whether
>it gets accepted
On 08/10/2020 08.05, Chetan Pant wrote:
> There is no "version 2" of the "Lesser" General Public License. It is
> either "GPL version 2.0" or "LGPL version 2.1". This patch replaces all
> occurrences of "LGPL version 2" with "LGPL version 2.1" in comment section.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chetan Pant
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On 08/10/2020 10.40, Chetan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'll be working on replacing the license text in LGPL licensed files with
> the SPDX identifier tag and will submit it as a separate patch.
I'm also not sure whether it's legally possible to replace the license text
without agreement of all authors
Hello,
I'll be working on replacing the license text in LGPL licensed files with
the SPDX identifier tag and will submit it as a separate patch.
*On 08/10/2020 09.54, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: *
*> --- > *
* >Also, if you use a script to do that cleanup, it would be >useful to
include it
On 08/10/2020 09.54, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 10/8/20 8:05 AM, Chetan Pant wrote:
>> There is no "version 2" of the "Lesser" General Public License. It is
>> either "GPL version 2.0" or "LGPL version 2.1". This patch replaces all
>> occurrences of "LGPL version 2" with "LGPL vers
Hi,
On 10/8/20 8:05 AM, Chetan Pant wrote:
> There is no "version 2" of the "Lesser" General Public License. It is
> either "GPL version 2.0" or "LGPL version 2.1". This patch replaces all
> occurrences of "LGPL version 2" with "LGPL version 2.1" in comment section.
This looks like a good cleanup
Patchew URL:
https://patchew.org/QEMU/20201008060528.68579-1-chetan4wind...@gmail.com/
Hi,
This series seems to have some coding style problems. See output below for
more information:
Type: series
Message-id: 20201008060528.68579-1-chetan4wind...@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH] Fixing LGPL
