-In particular, the QEMU virtual CPU core library (libqemu.a) is
-released under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Many hardware
-device emulation sources are released under the BSD license.
+2) Parts of the QEMU emulator have specific licenses which are compatible
+with the 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.
+
+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/vfio/, hw/xen/xen_pt*.