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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/15] hyperv: move VMBus connection ids to uapi
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 10:02:47 -0800
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On Wed, 21 Dec 2016 09:58:36 -0800
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 09:50:49AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Lastly, there is licensing issues on headers. It would be good to have any
> > userspace ABI headers licensed with a more liberal license so that BSD and DPDK drivers
> > could use them directly. Right now each one reinvents.  
> 
> Microsoft could easily solves this problem by offering a suitably
> liberally licensed header documenting the full HyperV guest protocol
> that Linux and other projects could use.

The issue is if same header file mixes kernel and userspace API stuff.

Once the files are arranged right, I will submit trivial change to comments
to indicate the liberal licensing of userspace API headers.