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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] ui/gtk: Fix the license information


From: Daniel P . Berrangé
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] ui/gtk: Fix the license information
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 09:30:22 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13)

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 07:51:42AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> The license information in this file is very messy. A short note at
> the beginning says GPL first, but the long boilerplate code then
> talks about "GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.0". First,
> there is no such version of the "GNU Lesser GPL", it only started with
> version 2.1. In version 2.0, it was still called "GNU Library GPL"
> instead. Second, you can easily get the license of this file wrong
> if you only quickly glance at the long boilerplate code.
> 
> Anyway, looking at the text of the LGPL (see COPYING.LIB in the top
> directory), the license clearly states in section "3." that one should
> rather replace the license information with the GPL information in
> such a case of a mixture instead. Thus let's clean up the confusing
> statements and use the proper GPL text only.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
> ---
>  v2: Move the boilerplate code to the top
> 
>  ui/gtk.c | 30 +++++++++++++-----------------
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/ui/gtk.c b/ui/gtk.c
> index 949b143..ff505ae 100644
> --- a/ui/gtk.c
> +++ b/ui/gtk.c
> @@ -6,29 +6,25 @@
>   * Authors:
>   *  Anthony Liguori   <address@hidden>
>   *
> - * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
> - * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or 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.
>   *
> - * Portions from gtk-vnc:
> + * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> + * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> + * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
> + * General Public License for more details.
> + *
> + * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> + * along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
> + *
> + * Portions from gtk-vnc (originally licensed under the LGPL v2):

s/v2/v2+/

With that fixed

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden>


Regards,
Daniel
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