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+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,18 +1,26 @@
-The following points clarify the QEMU license:
+The QEMU distribution includes both the QEMU emulator and
+various firmware files.  These are separate programs that are
+distributed together for our users' convenience, and they have
+separate licenses.
 
-1) QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License
+The following points clarify the license of the QEMU emulator:
 
-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.
+1) The QEMU emulator as a whole is released under the GNU General
+Public License, version 2.
 
-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*.
 
 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.
\ No newline at end of file
+Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU team