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Since 2008 the tcg/LICENSE file has not changed: it claims that everything under tcg/ is BSD-licensed. This is not true and hasn't been true for years: in 2013 we accepted the tcg/aarch64 target code under a GPLv2-or-later license statement. We also have generic vector optimisation code under the LGPL2.1-or-later, and the TCI backend is GPLv2-or-later. Further, many of the files are not BSD licensed but MIT licensed. We don't really consider the tcg subdirectory to be a distinct part of QEMU anyway. Remove the LICENSE file, since claiming false information about the license of the code is confusing. Update the main project LICENSE file also to be clearer about the licenses used by TCG. Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Message-Id: <20191025155848.17362-5-peter.maydell@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
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The QEMU distribution includes both the QEMU emulator and
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various firmware files. These are separate programs that are
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distributed together for our users' convenience, and they have
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separate licenses.
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The following points clarify the license of the QEMU emulator:
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1) The QEMU emulator as a whole is released under the GNU General
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Public License, version 2.
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2) Parts of the QEMU emulator have specific licenses which are compatible
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with the GNU General Public License, version 2. Hence each source file
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contains its own licensing information. Source files with no licensing
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information are released under the GNU General Public License, version
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2 or (at your option) any later version.
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As of July 2013, contributions under version 2 of the GNU General Public
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License (and no later version) are only accepted for the following files
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or directories: bsd-user/, linux-user/, hw/vfio/, hw/xen/xen_pt*.
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3) The Tiny Code Generator (TCG) is mostly under the BSD or MIT licenses;
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but some parts may be GPLv2 or other licenses. Again, see the
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specific licensing information in each source file.
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4) QEMU is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard.
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Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU team
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