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[v7,01/39] qapi: Add copyright declaration on docs

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Eric Blake April 29, 2015, 1:06 p.m. UTC 
While our top-level COPYING with its GPLv2+ license applies to
any documentation file that omits explicit instructions, these
days it's better to be a good example of calling out our
intentions.  Correct use of GPL requires the use of a copyright
statement, so I'm adding notice to two QAPI documents, by
attributing these files to the initial authors and major
contributors.  I used:

$ git blame --line-porcelain $file \
  | sed -n 's/^author //p' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn

to determine authorship of these two files.  qmp-spec.txt blames
entirely to Red Hat (easy, since my contribution falls in that
category); while qapi-code-gen.txt has multiple contributors
representing multiple entities.  But since it was originally
supplied by Michael Roth, the notice I added there copies the
notice he has used in other files.  As there is no intended
change in license from the implicit one previously present from
the top level, I have not bothered to CC other contributors;
if we want to weaken things to something looser (such as LGPL)
so that there is no question that someone re-implementing the
spec is not forced to use GPL, that would be a different commit.

CC: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

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v7: Drop date stamp that is too likely to go stale [Markus]
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 docs/qapi-code-gen.txt | 8 ++++++++
 docs/qmp/qmp-spec.txt  | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt b/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt
index 8313ba6..e8bbaf8 100644
--- a/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt
+++ b/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@ 
 = How to use the QAPI code generator =

+Copyright IBM Corp. 2011
+Copyright (C) 2012-2015 Red Hat, Inc.
+
+This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or
+later. See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
+
+== Introduction ==
+
 QAPI is a native C API within QEMU which provides management-level
 functionality to internal/external users. For external
 users/processes, this interface is made available by a JSON-based
diff --git a/docs/qmp/qmp-spec.txt b/docs/qmp/qmp-spec.txt
index 22568c6..cb1600a 100644
--- a/docs/qmp/qmp-spec.txt
+++ b/docs/qmp/qmp-spec.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@ 
                       QEMU Machine Protocol Specification

+0. About This Document
+======================
+
+Copyright (C) 2009-2015 Red Hat, Inc.
+
+This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or
+later. See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
+
 1. Introduction
 ===============