Alistair Francis | 91f3a2f | 2019-07-16 11:47:22 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | The QEMU distribution includes both the QEMU emulator and |
| 2 | various firmware files. These are separate programs that are |
| 3 | distributed together for our users' convenience, and they have |
| 4 | separate licenses. |
bellard | 7c3fc84 | 2005-02-10 21:46:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | |
Alistair Francis | 91f3a2f | 2019-07-16 11:47:22 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | The following points clarify the license of the QEMU emulator: |
bellard | 7c3fc84 | 2005-02-10 21:46:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | |
Alistair Francis | 91f3a2f | 2019-07-16 11:47:22 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 8 | 1) The QEMU emulator as a whole is released under the GNU General |
| 9 | Public License, version 2. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | 2) Parts of the QEMU emulator have specific licenses which are compatible |
| 12 | with the GNU General Public License, version 2. Hence each source file |
| 13 | contains its own licensing information. Source files with no licensing |
| 14 | information are released under the GNU General Public License, version |
| 15 | 2 or (at your option) any later version. |
bellard | b6aaab3 | 2007-02-05 21:06:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | |
Paolo Bonzini | 8571fa5 | 2013-07-31 08:19:52 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 17 | As of July 2013, contributions under version 2 of the GNU General Public |
| 18 | License (and no later version) are only accepted for the following files |
Kim Phillips | cf7087d | 2014-12-19 15:24:06 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 19 | or directories: bsd-user/, linux-user/, hw/vfio/, hw/xen/xen_pt*. |
bellard | 7c3fc84 | 2005-02-10 21:46:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | |
Peter Maydell | cb974c9 | 2019-10-25 16:58:48 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | 3) The Tiny Code Generator (TCG) is mostly under the BSD or MIT licenses; |
| 22 | but some parts may be GPLv2 or other licenses. Again, see the |
| 23 | specific licensing information in each source file. |
bellard | 57fec1f | 2008-02-01 10:50:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 24 | |
| 25 | 4) QEMU is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard. |
bellard | 7c3fc84 | 2005-02-10 21:46:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 26 | |
Paolo Bonzini | 8571fa5 | 2013-07-31 08:19:52 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 27 | Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU team |