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bellardb6aaab32007-02-05 21:06:29 +00001The following points clarify the QEMU license:
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Paolo Bonzini8571fa52013-07-31 08:19:52 +020031) QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
4version 2.
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bellardb6aaab32007-02-05 21:06:29 +000062) Parts of QEMU have specific licenses which are compatible with the
Paolo Bonzini8571fa52013-07-31 08:19:52 +02007GNU General Public License, version 2. Hence each source file contains
8its own licensing information. Source files with no licensing information
9are released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or (at your
10option) any later version.
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Paolo Bonzini8571fa52013-07-31 08:19:52 +020012As of July 2013, contributions under version 2 of the GNU General Public
13License (and no later version) are only accepted for the following files
Kim Phillipscf7087d2014-12-19 15:24:06 -070014or directories: bsd-user/, linux-user/, hw/vfio/, hw/xen/xen_pt*.
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bellard57fec1f2008-02-01 10:50:11 +0000163) The Tiny Code Generator (TCG) is released under the BSD license
17 (see license headers in files).
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194) QEMU is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard.
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Paolo Bonzini8571fa52013-07-31 08:19:52 +020021Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU team