Re: [PATCH] hw/rtc/sun4v-rtc: Relicense to GPLv2-or-later

[Paolo Bonzini]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 5:13 PM Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> The sun4v RTC device model added under commit a0e893039cf2ce0 in 2016
> was unfortunately added with a license of GPL-v3-or-later, which is
> not compatible with other QEMU code which has a GPL-v2-only license.
>
> Relicense the code in the .c and the .h file to GPL-v2-or-later,
> to make it compatible with the rest of QEMU.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> ---
> Before we can commit this to either head-of-git or any stable branch,
> we need a Signed-off-by: from everybody who's touched this file (or,
> for corporate contributions, from somebody from the relevant company
> who can confirm that the company is OK with the licensing, which is
> RedHat and Linaro in this case).

All contributions from Red Hat are GPLv2 or later (though it's nice
that Markus signed off on his own), so

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini (for Red Hat) <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Paolo

> The full list of people who've made changes to the file is:
>  Artyom Tarasenko <atar4qemu@gmail.com>
>  Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
>  Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
>  Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
>
> (Artyom is the original author; everybody else's changes are largely
> mechanical, refactoring, etc.  We've done some behind-the-scenes
> coordination so I don't anticipate any problems getting the
> signoffs.)
> ---
>  include/hw/rtc/sun4v-rtc.h | 2 +-
>  hw/rtc/sun4v-rtc.c         | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/hw/rtc/sun4v-rtc.h b/include/hw/rtc/sun4v-rtc.h
> index fc54dfcba47..26a9eb61967 100644
> --- a/include/hw/rtc/sun4v-rtc.h
> +++ b/include/hw/rtc/sun4v-rtc.h
> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
>   *
>   * Copyright (c) 2016 Artyom Tarasenko
>   *
> - * This code is licensed under the GNU GPL v3 or (at your option) any later
> + * This code is licensed under the GNU GPL v2 or (at your option) any later
>   * version.
>   */
>
> diff --git a/hw/rtc/sun4v-rtc.c b/hw/rtc/sun4v-rtc.c
> index e037acd1b56..ffcc0aa25d9 100644
> --- a/hw/rtc/sun4v-rtc.c
> +++ b/hw/rtc/sun4v-rtc.c
> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
>   *
>   * Copyright (c) 2016 Artyom Tarasenko
>   *
> - * This code is licensed under the GNU GPL v3 or (at your option) any later
> + * This code is licensed under the GNU GPL v2 or (at your option) any later
>   * version.
>   */
>
> --
> 2.34.1
>