From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kiszka Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Import Linux headers for KVM and vhost Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 19:42:41 +0200 Message-ID: <4DC03E91.2060008@siemens.com> References: <4DC00BB1.7000008@siemens.com> <4DC031CC.1040902@siemens.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Anthony Liguori , kvm , Marcelo Tosatti , Alexander Graf , qemu-devel , Avi Kivity To: Peter Maydell Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+gceq-qemu-devel=gmane.org@nongnu.org Sender: qemu-devel-bounces+gceq-qemu-devel=gmane.org@nongnu.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On 2011-05-03 19:30, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 3 May 2011 17:48, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> Kernel headers were automatically imported from current kvm.git, >> 93c016c8c4. Some are not covered by any license and can be considered >> GPLv2 with user space exception. > > Hmm. Can't we just get whoever owns those files to apply a suitable > copyright and license header to them? Committing files to qemu.git > which don't have a clear (and clearly stated) copyright/license seems > like a bad plan to me... I will discuss this internally again (with those people running the result through FOSSology sooner or later anyway). What about auto-importing the Linux top-level license file as well and putting it under include/? That would replicate what you find in Linux today and should at least maintain the level of pain, not increase it. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:33750) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHJcT-0004xq-GK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2011 13:42:46 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHJcS-0001It-K7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2011 13:42:45 -0400 Received: from thoth.sbs.de ([192.35.17.2]:19044) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHJcS-0001Ip-AG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2011 13:42:44 -0400 Message-ID: <4DC03E91.2060008@siemens.com> Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 19:42:41 +0200 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4DC00BB1.7000008@siemens.com> <4DC031CC.1040902@siemens.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Import Linux headers for KVM and vhost List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: Anthony Liguori , kvm , Marcelo Tosatti , Alexander Graf , qemu-devel , Avi Kivity On 2011-05-03 19:30, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 3 May 2011 17:48, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> Kernel headers were automatically imported from current kvm.git, >> 93c016c8c4. Some are not covered by any license and can be considered >> GPLv2 with user space exception. > > Hmm. Can't we just get whoever owns those files to apply a suitable > copyright and license header to them? Committing files to qemu.git > which don't have a clear (and clearly stated) copyright/license seems > like a bad plan to me... I will discuss this internally again (with those people running the result through FOSSology sooner or later anyway). What about auto-importing the Linux top-level license file as well and putting it under include/? That would replicate what you find in Linux today and should at least maintain the level of pain, not increase it. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux