1*91f3a2f0SAlistair FrancisThe QEMU distribution includes both the QEMU emulator and 2*91f3a2f0SAlistair Francisvarious firmware files. These are separate programs that are 3*91f3a2f0SAlistair Francisdistributed together for our users' convenience, and they have 4*91f3a2f0SAlistair Francisseparate licenses. 57c3fc84dSbellard 6*91f3a2f0SAlistair FrancisThe following points clarify the license of the QEMU emulator: 77c3fc84dSbellard 8*91f3a2f0SAlistair Francis1) The QEMU emulator as a whole is released under the GNU General 9*91f3a2f0SAlistair FrancisPublic License, version 2. 10*91f3a2f0SAlistair Francis 11*91f3a2f0SAlistair Francis2) Parts of the QEMU emulator have specific licenses which are compatible 12*91f3a2f0SAlistair Franciswith the GNU General Public License, version 2. Hence each source file 13*91f3a2f0SAlistair Franciscontains its own licensing information. Source files with no licensing 14*91f3a2f0SAlistair Francisinformation are released under the GNU General Public License, version 15*91f3a2f0SAlistair Francis2 or (at your option) any later version. 16b6aaab3bSbellard 178571fa57SPaolo BonziniAs of July 2013, contributions under version 2 of the GNU General Public 188571fa57SPaolo BonziniLicense (and no later version) are only accepted for the following files 19cf7087dbSKim Phillipsor directories: bsd-user/, linux-user/, hw/vfio/, hw/xen/xen_pt*. 207c3fc84dSbellard 2157fec1feSbellard3) The Tiny Code Generator (TCG) is released under the BSD license 2257fec1feSbellard (see license headers in files). 2357fec1feSbellard 2457fec1feSbellard4) QEMU is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard. 257c3fc84dSbellard 268571fa57SPaolo BonziniFabrice Bellard and the QEMU team 27