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Alistair Francis91f3a2f2019-07-16 11:47:22 -07001The QEMU distribution includes both the QEMU emulator and
2various firmware files. These are separate programs that are
3distributed together for our users' convenience, and they have
4separate licenses.
bellard7c3fc842005-02-10 21:46:47 +00005
Alistair Francis91f3a2f2019-07-16 11:47:22 -07006The following points clarify the license of the QEMU emulator:
bellard7c3fc842005-02-10 21:46:47 +00007
Alistair Francis91f3a2f2019-07-16 11:47:22 -070081) The QEMU emulator as a whole is released under the GNU General
9Public License, version 2.
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112) Parts of the QEMU emulator have specific licenses which are compatible
12with the GNU General Public License, version 2. Hence each source file
13contains its own licensing information. Source files with no licensing
14information are released under the GNU General Public License, version
152 or (at your option) any later version.
bellardb6aaab32007-02-05 21:06:29 +000016
Paolo Bonzini8571fa52013-07-31 08:19:52 +020017As of July 2013, contributions under version 2 of the GNU General Public
18License (and no later version) are only accepted for the following files
Kim Phillipscf7087d2014-12-19 15:24:06 -070019or directories: bsd-user/, linux-user/, hw/vfio/, hw/xen/xen_pt*.
bellard7c3fc842005-02-10 21:46:47 +000020
Peter Maydellcb974c92019-10-25 16:58:48 +0100213) 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.
bellard57fec1f2008-02-01 10:50:11 +000024
254) QEMU is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard.
bellard7c3fc842005-02-10 21:46:47 +000026
Paolo Bonzini8571fa52013-07-31 08:19:52 +020027Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU team