From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Burakov, Anatoly" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Create kern folder for Linux kernel modules Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 13:05:32 +0000 Message-ID: <2f41a843-edb4-04ac-cc12-d27b55424934@intel.com> References: <1513922231-15554-1-git-send-email-hemant.agrawal@nxp.com> <2388140.F1AUfV8GGA@xps> <1e293147-9c72-9e77-97cb-9aabc9e5af39@nxp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: dev@dpdk.org Return-path: Received: from mga05.intel.com (mga05.intel.com [192.55.52.43]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C47C1B36D for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2017 14:05:35 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <1e293147-9c72-9e77-97cb-9aabc9e5af39@nxp.com> Content-Language: en-US List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On 22-Dec-17 10:04 AM, Hemant Agrawal wrote: > On 12/22/2017 2:13 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: >> Hi, >> >> 22/12/2017 06:57, Hemant Agrawal: >>> This patch moves the Linux kernel modules code to a common place. >>>  - Separate the kernel module code from user space code. >>>  - The GPL-2.0 licensed code is separated from the BSD-3 licensed >>> userspace >>>    code >> >> What is the benefit of separate things by license? > > The separation makes it easy to identify and check the license. > > Any patch introducing new file in *non-kern* folders shall not be > GPL-2.0 licensed.  Or GPL-2.0 license is allowed only for kern folder. The latter is better since BSD kernel modules are not GPL-licensed. So, anything in the kern/kernel dir is not *necessarily* GPL-licensed, but anything *outside* kern/kernel dir is *necessarily not* GPL-licensed. -- Thanks, Anatoly