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by edef 883 days ago
The qemu TCG parts that it presumably links to are GPLv2, so the combined project is GPLv2 by necessity[1]. I think that's all they're trying to get across.

[1]: apart from viral licenses being pretty much meaningless under EU copyright law
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aleclm 883 days ago
Exactly. We wanted MIT, but we were infected by the GPLv2 due to the QEMU dependency. So we licensed each file under MIT, but GPLv2 as a whole.

QEMU does something similar:

    https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/master/LICENSE
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Someone 882 days ago
Aha!

I think you could phrase that better. Maybe something like “This projects builds on GPLv2-licensed code, so the project is GPLv2-licensed. If you want to use our additions in isolation, you can choose to use them as either GPLv2 or MIT licensed”?

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