From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rusty Russell Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Import Linux headers for KVM and vhost Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 12:54:41 +0930 Message-ID: <87pqnsh7ye.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> References: <4DC00BB1.7000008@siemens.com> <4DC031CC.1040902@siemens.com> <4DC03F21.6070507@codemonkey.ws> <4DC04177.6020702@siemens.com> <4DC0426A.5090008@codemonkey.ws> <20110503213746.GA6774@redhat.com> <4DC1147E.4080603@siemens.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Peter Maydell , kvm , Marcelo Tosatti , qemu-devel , Alexander Graf , Avi Kivity To: Jan Kiszka , "Michael S. Tsirkin" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4DC1147E.4080603@siemens.com> 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 Wed, 04 May 2011 10:55:26 +0200, Jan Kiszka 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. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37196) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJJPs-000296-Cs for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 01:54:01 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJJPr-0001IW-3P for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 01:54:00 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:56398) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJJPq-0001IC-QT for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 01:53:59 -0400 From: Rusty Russell In-Reply-To: <4DC1147E.4080603@siemens.com> References: <4DC00BB1.7000008@siemens.com> <4DC031CC.1040902@siemens.com> <4DC03F21.6070507@codemonkey.ws> <4DC04177.6020702@siemens.com> <4DC0426A.5090008@codemonkey.ws> <20110503213746.GA6774@redhat.com> <4DC1147E.4080603@siemens.com> Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 12:54:41 +0930 Message-ID: <87pqnsh7ye.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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: Jan Kiszka , "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Peter Maydell , kvm , Marcelo Tosatti , qemu-devel , Alexander Graf , Avi Kivity On Wed, 04 May 2011 10:55:26 +0200, Jan Kiszka 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.