Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 1/3] ich9: add TCO interface emulation

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 02:32:17PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 22/06/2015 14:30, Paulo Alcantara wrote:
> > > > > > +/*
> > > > > > QEMU ICH9 TCO emulation
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> > > > Please make new original code GPLv2+. If you have copied from another
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> >
> > OK.
>
> Why?  The only "forbidden" license for new code is GPLv2.
>
> If you want to make things more permissive, that's accepted.
>
> Paolo

Because it's a pain if I need to move code between files with different
licenses.  MIT is GPL compatible but mixing licenses at random is still
not a good idea.