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The following points clarify the QEMU license:
-1) QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License
+1) QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
+version 2.
2) Parts of QEMU have specific licenses which are compatible with the
-GNU General Public License. Hence each source file contains its own
-licensing information.
+GNU General Public License, version 2. Hence each source file contains
+its own licensing information. Source files with no licensing information
+are released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or (at your
+option) any later version.
-Many hardware device emulation sources are released under the BSD license.
+As of July 2013, contributions under version 2 of the GNU General Public
+License (and no later version) are only accepted for the following files
+or directories: bsd-user/, linux-user/, hw/misc/vfio.c, hw/xen/xen_pt*.
3) The Tiny Code Generator (TCG) is released under the BSD license
(see license headers in files).
4) QEMU is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard.
-Fabrice Bellard.
+Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU team