softfloat: Clarify license statussf-relicensing

The code in the softfloat source files is under a mixture of
licenses: the original code and many changes from QEMU contributors
are under the base SoftFloat-2a license; changes from Stefan Weil
and RedHat employees are GPLv2-or-later; changes from Fabrice Bellard
are under the BSD license. Clarify this in the comments at the
top of each affected source file, including a statement about
the assumed licensing for future contributions, so we don't need
to remember to ask patch submitters explicitly to pick a license.

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 47 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fpu/softfloat.c b/fpu/softfloat.c
index 3ab75a34bc..3729e7208a 100644
--- a/fpu/softfloat.c
+++ b/fpu/softfloat.c
@@ -1,7 +1,18 @@
 /*
  * QEMU float support
  *
- * Derived from SoftFloat.
+ * The code in this source file is derived from release 2a of the SoftFloat
+ * IEC/IEEE Floating-point Arithmetic Package. Those parts of the code (and
+ * some later contributions) are provided under that license, as detailed below.
+ * It has subsequently been modified by contributors to the QEMU Project,
+ * so some portions are provided under:
+ *  the SoftFloat-2a license
+ *  the BSD license
+ *  GPL-v2-or-later
+ *
+ * Any future contributions to this file after December 1st 2014
+ * will be taken to be licensed under GPL-v2-or-later unless specifically
+ * indicated otherwise. See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
  */
 
 /*
@@ -33,6 +44,41 @@ this code that are retained.
 ===============================================================================
 */
 
+/* BSD licensing:
+ * Copyright (c) 2006, Fabrice Bellard
+ * All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+ * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
+ *
+ * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
+ * this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+ *
+ * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
+ * this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
+ * and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+ *
+ * 3. Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its contributors
+ * may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without
+ * specific prior written permission.
+ *
+ * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS"
+ * AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
+ * IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
+ * ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE
+ * LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
+ * CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF
+ * SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
+ * INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
+ * CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE)
+ * ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF
+ * THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+ */
+
+/* Portions of this work are licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL,
+ * version 2 or later. See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
+ */
+
 /* softfloat (and in particular the code in softfloat-specialize.h) is
  * target-dependent and needs the TARGET_* macros.
  */