From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Gunthorpe Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-core 4/5] libocrdma: Move ocrdma's list implementation into common directory Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 11:40:57 -0600 Message-ID: <20160926174057.GD22965@obsidianresearch.com> References: <1474786207-2149-1-git-send-email-leon@kernel.org> <1474786207-2149-5-git-send-email-leon@kernel.org> <20160925144121.GA12246@infradead.org> <20160925161315.GD4088@leon.nu> <20160925162203.GA32434@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160925162203.GA32434-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Leon Romanovsky , dledford-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, yishaih-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org 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 horribly outdated version).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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html