From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: david.nospam.hopwood@blueyonder.co.uk
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xs.h cannot include xenctrl.h
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:08:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ae586e14196fbe65abecdfa4f32f1a72@cl.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <434BE794.3090304@blueyonder.co.uk>
On 11 Oct 2005, at 17:25, David Hopwood wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> xs.h is LGPL. xenctrl.h is GPL. If xs.h includes xenctrl.h it
>> implicitly makes xs.h GPL'd. The following patches remove the
>> xenctrl.h
>> dependency in xs.h.
>
> Why not just make all headers LGPL (or less restrictive, e.g. BSD)?
> Don't many of these headers need to be referenced from OSes where
> software
> is typically BSD-licensed, anyway?
>
> (BSD without the advertising clause is compatible with GPL and LGPL.)
libxenctrl is GPL. Anything that includes the header file ought also to
be linking with libxenctrl, so just changing the header file license is
something of a hack.
Getting rid of the dependency is the right answer I think.
-- Keir
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-11 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-11 16:02 [PATCH] xs.h cannot include xenctrl.h Anthony Liguori
2005-10-11 16:25 ` David Hopwood
2005-10-11 17:08 ` Keir Fraser [this message]
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