From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Egger Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2 03/13] libxl: Provide a version of bsd's queue.h as _libxl_list.h Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 11:40:25 +0100 Message-ID: <4EB26F99.6050205@amd.com> References: <1319827031-15395-1-git-send-email-ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> <1319827031-15395-2-git-send-email-ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> <1319827031-15395-3-git-send-email-ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> <1319827031-15395-4-git-send-email-ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> <1320054210.23193.23.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> <63525D85-B6C7-480F-853B-4980BC1B612F@recoil.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <63525D85-B6C7-480F-853B-4980BC1B612F@recoil.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Anil Madhavapeddy Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , Ian Jackson , Ian Campbell List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 11/02/11 18:28, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote: > On 31 Oct 2011, at 09:43, Ian Campbell wrote: > >> On Fri, 2011-10-28 at 19:37 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: >>> @@ -18,6 +18,14 @@ GPLv2. See the FSF's definition of GPL compatibility: >>> And how this applies to a range of open source licenses: >>> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html >>> >>> +Additionally, the documentation file tools/libxl/external/bsd-queue.3 >>> +has the 4-clause BSD licence. It is present in the Xen source tree >>> +for reference purposes for people developing Xen. It is not installed >>> +by "make install" and is bundled in the source only for convenience of >>> +distribution. We do not intend that we or Xen users or distributors >>> +should make any reference to "features or use" of that manpage. >> >> Anil pointed to the OpenBSD version of this page which has that clause >> removed. It would simplify things to use their version (of the header >> too for consistency)? We are probably not comfortable with just >> rescinding the clause ourselves? > > If you rescind it yourself, you'll need to go through the FreeBSD CVS history > to make sure that there were no other contributors other than Berkeley. OpenBSD > already did that in 2002 (and subsequent patches take on the new license, so it doesn't matter). According to cvs history both NetBSD and OpenBSD did that in 2003. Now it's just about to compare whose content matches most with FreeBSD's implementation. :) Christoph -- ---to satisfy European Law for business letters: Advanced Micro Devices GmbH Einsteinring 24, 85689 Dornach b. Muenchen Geschaeftsfuehrer: Alberto Bozzo, Andrew Bowd Sitz: Dornach, Gemeinde Aschheim, Landkreis Muenchen Registergericht Muenchen, HRB Nr. 43632