Re: [PATCH v15 19/28] x86/tpm: Early TPM PCR extending driver

Dave Hansen
2026-01-03T20:44:48Z

On 12/19/25 13:26, Daniel P. Smith wrote:
...
>> I also seem to remember that there are special rules around the US
>> federal government's inability to hold copyrights. This seems worth at
>> least a mention ... somewhere.
>
> IANAL either, but in general the safest/correct approach is to retain
> any CRs placed on the code being reused, and the above is the CR on the
> source from the Xen tree.

Yeah, in general, that's a good thing to do.

But I'm puzzled by your response. Are you making an attempt to justify
the past choice to copy the copyrights verbatim? Or are you declining to
follow my request to involve your companies' legal experts given that
you used the "safest/correct approach"?

FWIW, I don't think what you did was bad here. You _did_ use a quite
reasonable approach in the case that a copyright was copied verbatim
from an existing legitimate* project.

* I'll give Xen the benefit of the doubt just this one time and put it
in the "legitimate" bucket. :P