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 19:55:03 +0200 Message-ID: <4DC04177.6020702@siemens.com> References: <4DC00BB1.7000008@siemens.com> <4DC031CC.1040902@siemens.com> <4DC03F21.6070507@codemonkey.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Peter Maydell , Anthony Liguori , kvm , Marcelo Tosatti , Alexander Graf , qemu-devel , Avi Kivity To: Anthony Liguori Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4DC03F21.6070507@codemonkey.ws> 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 19:45, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 05/03/2011 12:30 PM, 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... > > 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 -- 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]:58297) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHJoU-0007RB-14 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2011 13:55:10 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHJoT-0003Fn-0Q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2011 13:55:09 -0400 Received: from david.siemens.de ([192.35.17.14]:18280) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHJoS-0003Eb-I8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2011 13:55:08 -0400 Message-ID: <4DC04177.6020702@siemens.com> Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 19:55:03 +0200 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4DC00BB1.7000008@siemens.com> <4DC031CC.1040902@siemens.com> <4DC03F21.6070507@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: <4DC03F21.6070507@codemonkey.ws> 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: Anthony Liguori Cc: Peter Maydell , Anthony Liguori , kvm , Marcelo Tosatti , Alexander Graf , qemu-devel , Avi Kivity 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 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 -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux