From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Hopwood Subject: Re: [PATCH] xs.h cannot include xenctrl.h Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:25:56 +0100 Message-ID: <434BE794.3090304@blueyonder.co.uk> References: <434BE203.5070303@us.ibm.com> Reply-To: david.nospam.hopwood@blueyonder.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <434BE203.5070303@us.ibm.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Anthony Liguori wrote: > xs.h is LGPL. xenctrl.h is GPL. If xs.h includes xenctrl.h it > implicitly makes xs.h GPL'd. The following patches remove the xenctrl.h > dependency in xs.h. Why not just make all headers LGPL (or less restrictive, e.g. BSD)? Don't many of these headers need to be referenced from OSes where software is typically BSD-licensed, anyway? (BSD without the advertising clause is compatible with GPL and LGPL.) -- David Hopwood