Re: [PATCH 12/14] KVM: x86 emulator

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 15:22 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >> The entire patchset is GPL'ed.  Do you mean to make it explicit?  If so, 
> >> how?  I'd rather not copy the entire license into each file.
> >>     
> >
> > a simple one liner like
> > "This file is licensed under the terms of the GPL v2 license"
> > (add "or later" if you feel like doing that)
> > is going to be generally useful. 
> >
> > At least many many legal departments really prefer at least that minimum
> > line to be there for each file; some even want a much longer blurb.
> >   
> 
> Okay.  I hate to use the word "official", but is there an official 
> position on this somewhere?

I don't think there's an hard official rule; just good practice and to
take away any unclarity..
.

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