[Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V6 03/15] xen: Add xen_machine_fv

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> >> + * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining 
> >> a copy
> >> + * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), 
> >> to deal
> >> + * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the 
> >> rights
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> > 
> > So all this code has always been public domain? There are no GPL'ed pieces 
> > in there?
> 
> Public domain is something entirely different. This is just a permissive
> license, and it's used a lot throughout qemu. So as you state that this
> file is mostly a copy of pc.c which uses this license, at least for the
> copied part it's not only okay, but even required to use the same
> license here.
 
Indeed, the license above is BSD because the original was BSD, it would
be rude to GPL it.

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