Re: [PATCH rdma-core 4/5] libocrdma: Move ocrdma's list implementation into common directory

Jason Gunthorpe
2016-09-26T17:40:57Z

On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 09:22:03AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> But given that I don't know who owns every little bit of the Linux
> lists.h I'd simply avoid anything looking like it and use something
> like the BSD queue.h instead (which glibc also provides, but in a
> horribly outdated version).

Copyright isn't a patent, assuming freebsd didn't copy any code and
just implemented the same API independently (eg it is an Independent
Creation) they should be OK from a copyright perspective. As should be
Rusty's version in CCAN.

Jason