From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefano Stabellini Subject: Re: Grub2 on Xen PV Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 13:37:16 +0100 Message-ID: <4A12A7FC.3070202@eu.citrix.com> References: <87my9e8ldu.fsf@tac.ki.iif.hu> <87octu6tnk.fsf@tac.ki.iif.hu> <87my9e8ldu.fsf@tac.ki.iif.hu> <87eiuq8k91.fsf@tac.ki.iif.hu> <87my9e8ldu.fsf@tac.ki.iif.hu> <20090516214229.GA5445@const.famille.thibault.fr> <87r5ym5a7o.fsf@tac.ki.iif.hu> <20090518222243.GQ7109@const.dartybox.com> <4FA716B1526C7C4DB0375C6DADBC4EA3417372CF1A@LONPMAILBOX01.citrite.net> <4A129DED.6070109@eu.citrix.com> <874ovhmgns.fsf@tac.ki.iif.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <874ovhmgns.fsf@tac.ki.iif.hu> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Ferenc Wagner Cc: Samuel Thibault , Ian Pratt , "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Ferenc Wagner wrote: > If it's new BSD (without the advertising clause), then that's > perfectly fine. Unfortunately I couldn't read so however hard I > tried. From the top level COPYING file: > > Licensing Exceptions (the relaxed BSD-style license) > ---------------------------------------------------- > > For the convenience of users and those who are porting OSes to run > as Xen guests, certain files in this repository are not subject to > the GPL when distributed separately or included in software > packages outside this repository. Instead we specify a much more > relaxed BSD-style license. Affected files include the Xen interface > headers (xen/include/public/COPYING), and various drivers, support > functions and header files within the Linux source trees on > http://xenbits.xensource.com/linux-2.6.X-xen.hg. In all such cases, > license terms are stated at the top of the file or in a COPYING > file in the same directory. Note that _any_ file that is modified > and then distributed within a Linux kernel is still subject to the > GNU GPL. > > But there's no COPYING file under extras, nor the above mentions > MiniOS. The comment in blkfront.c says it's based on netfront.c, > whose comment says it's based on Xen Linux, which is BSD by the above, > so that may be OK. But other parts of MiniOS haven't got any license > declaration, so it isn't obvious, for the very least... I wonder how > it could be better communicated. > > Meanwhile I'll try to proceed nevertheless. Yeah, we'll try to make it more clear.