Re: [PATCH v2] Import Linux headers for KVM and vhost

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2011-05-03 19:45, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 05/03/2011 12:30 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 3 May 2011 17:48, Jan Kiszka<jan.kiszka@siemens.com>  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...
> 
> Which are the headers in question?

include/asm-powerpc:	explicit GPLv2
include/asm-s390:	explicit GPLv2
include/asm/x86:	no license mentioned
include/linux/kvm*:	no license mentioned
include/linux/vhost:	no license mentioned
include/linux/virtio*:	"BSB"

The last group already popped up here during a license clearing of the
kernel. I contacted Rusty on them and got the answer "Standard 3 clause.
 The 4 clause is incompatible with the GPL." That was OK for our
purposes, but I nevertheless asked Rusty to push a clarifying sentence
to the kernel - unfortunately this did not happen so far.

Jan

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