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authorEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>2015-05-04 09:04:58 -0600
committerMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>2015-05-05 18:38:59 +0200
commit6fb55451728e6dc74ae4e67e4f5ab557468f084e (patch)
tree3c53c59420c9085bda9892ae76269ba13bbf9644 /docs
parent874e9aeeeb74c5459639a93439a502d262847e68 (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>
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-rw-r--r--docs/qapi-code-gen.txt8
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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
diff --git a/docs/qmp/qmp-spec.txt b/docs/qmp/qmp-spec.txt
index 22568c644e..cb1600a983 100644
--- a/docs/qmp/qmp-spec.txt
+++ b/docs/qmp/qmp-spec.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
QEMU Machine Protocol Specification
+0. About This Document
+======================
+
+Copyright (C) 2009-2015 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.
+
1. Introduction
===============