| bellard | b6aaab3 | 2007-02-05 21:06:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | The following points clarify the QEMU license: |
| bellard | 7c3fc84 | 2005-02-10 21:46:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | |
| Paolo Bonzini | 8571fa5 | 2013-07-31 08:19:52 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | 1) QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License, |
| 4 | version 2. |
| bellard | 7c3fc84 | 2005-02-10 21:46:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | |
| bellard | b6aaab3 | 2007-02-05 21:06:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | 2) Parts of QEMU have specific licenses which are compatible with the |
| Paolo Bonzini | 8571fa5 | 2013-07-31 08:19:52 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | GNU General Public License, version 2. Hence each source file contains |
| 8 | its own licensing information. Source files with no licensing information |
| 9 | are released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or (at your |
| 10 | option) any later version. |
| bellard | b6aaab3 | 2007-02-05 21:06:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | |
| Paolo Bonzini | 8571fa5 | 2013-07-31 08:19:52 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 12 | As of July 2013, contributions under version 2 of the GNU General Public |
| 13 | License (and no later version) are only accepted for the following files |
| 14 | or directories: bsd-user/, linux-user/, hw/misc/vfio.c, hw/xen/xen_pt*. |
| bellard | 7c3fc84 | 2005-02-10 21:46:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | |
| bellard | 57fec1f | 2008-02-01 10:50:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | 3) The Tiny Code Generator (TCG) is released under the BSD license |
| 17 | (see license headers in files). |
| 18 | |
| 19 | 4) QEMU is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard. |
| bellard | 7c3fc84 | 2005-02-10 21:46:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | |
| Paolo Bonzini | 8571fa5 | 2013-07-31 08:19:52 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU team |