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| author | Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> | 2015-05-04 09:04:58 -0600 |
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| committer | Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> | 2015-05-05 18:38:59 +0200 |
| commit | 6fb55451728e6dc74ae4e67e4f5ab557468f084e (patch) | |
| tree | 3c53c59420c9085bda9892ae76269ba13bbf9644 /docs/qapi-code-gen.txt | |
| parent | 874e9aeeeb74c5459639a93439a502d262847e68 (diff) | |
qapi: Add copyright declaration on docs
While our top-level COPYING with its GPLv2+ license applies to
any documentation file that omits explicit instructions, these
days it's better to be a good example of calling out our
intentions. Correct use of GPL requires the use of a copyright
statement, so I'm adding notice to two QAPI documents, by
attributing these files to the initial authors and major
contributors. I used:
$ git blame --line-porcelain $file \
| sed -n 's/^author //p' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
to determine authorship of these two files. qmp-spec.txt blames
entirely to Red Hat (easy, since my contribution falls in that
category); while qapi-code-gen.txt has multiple contributors
representing multiple entities. But since it was originally
supplied by Michael Roth, the notice I added there copies the
notice he has used in other files. As there is no intended
change in license from the implicit one previously present from
the top level, I have not bothered to CC other contributors;
if we want to weaken things to something looser (such as LGPL)
so that there is no question that someone re-implementing the
spec is not forced to use GPL, that would be a different commit.
CC: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/qapi-code-gen.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/qapi-code-gen.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt b/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt index 8313ba6af8..e8bbaf8a07 100644 --- a/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt +++ b/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt @@ -1,5 +1,13 @@ = How to use the QAPI code generator = +Copyright IBM Corp. 2011 +Copyright (C) 2012-2015 Red Hat, Inc. + +This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or +later. See the COPYING file in the top-level directory. + +== Introduction == + QAPI is a native C API within QEMU which provides management-level functionality to internal/external users. For external users/processes, this interface is made available by a JSON-based |