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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Import Linux headers for KVM and vhost
Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 12:54:41 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pqnsh7ye.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DC1147E.4080603@siemens.com>

On Wed, 04 May 2011 10:55:26 +0200, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> wrote:
> But one point of all this is to make life easier for those poor people
> who have check a qemu source package before redistribution for included
> licenses. The clearer the terms are expressed, the easier these
> "unproductive" processes become. You can't imagine what activities that
> vague "BSD" license of the virtio headers triggered here...

Yes, so much so that I have been known to recommend that reimplementors
go for the headers out of the virtio spec file, which are definitively
uncontaminated.

However, I have prepared a patch, will send now...

Thanks for prod,
Rusty.

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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Import Linux headers for KVM and vhost
Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 12:54:41 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pqnsh7ye.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DC1147E.4080603@siemens.com>

On Wed, 04 May 2011 10:55:26 +0200, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> wrote:
> But one point of all this is to make life easier for those poor people
> who have check a qemu source package before redistribution for included
> licenses. The clearer the terms are expressed, the easier these
> "unproductive" processes become. You can't imagine what activities that
> vague "BSD" license of the virtio headers triggered here...

Yes, so much so that I have been known to recommend that reimplementors
go for the headers out of the virtio spec file, which are definitively
uncontaminated.

However, I have prepared a patch, will send now...

Thanks for prod,
Rusty.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-09  3:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-03 14:05 [RFC][PATCH] Import Linux headers for KVM and vhost Jan Kiszka
2011-05-03 14:05 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2011-05-03 15:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-03 15:12   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-03 15:32   ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-03 15:32     ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-03 15:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-03 15:41   ` [Qemu-devel] " Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-03 16:48 ` [PATCH v2] " Jan Kiszka
2011-05-03 16:48   ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2011-05-03 16:55   ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-03 16:55     ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2011-05-03 17:09     ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-03 17:09       ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2011-05-03 17:13       ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-03 17:13         ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2011-05-03 17:32         ` Edgar E. Iglesias
2011-05-03 17:32           ` [Qemu-devel] " Edgar E. Iglesias
2011-05-03 17:39           ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-03 17:39             ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2011-05-03 17:57           ` Scott Wood
2011-05-03 17:57             ` Scott Wood
2011-05-03 19:26             ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-03 19:26               ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-03 17:30   ` Peter Maydell
2011-05-03 17:30     ` Peter Maydell
2011-05-03 17:42     ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-03 17:42       ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2011-05-03 17:45     ` Anthony Liguori
2011-05-03 17:45       ` Anthony Liguori
2011-05-03 17:55       ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-03 17:55         ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2011-05-03 17:59         ` Anthony Liguori
2011-05-03 17:59           ` Anthony Liguori
2011-05-03 21:37           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-05-03 21:37             ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-05-04  8:55             ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-04  8:55               ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2011-05-09  3:24               ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2011-05-09  3:24                 ` Rusty Russell
2011-05-03 20:22   ` Peter Maydell
2011-05-03 20:22     ` Peter Maydell
2011-05-04 10:28     ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-04 10:28       ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2011-05-04 17:58       ` Andreas Färber
2011-05-04 18:01         ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-04 18:01           ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka

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