Re: [PATCH v2] s390/virtio: mark headers as BSD licensed

Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-11-08T19:58:56Z

On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 08:39:11PM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
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> On 11/08/2017 08:35 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 07:57:28PM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> >> So what about the following
> >>
> >> - leave kvm_virtio.h unchanged and we will delete this file via the s390 tree
> >
> > Seems to be used by kvm_virtio.c - are you removing that too?
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> Yes, so sorry my first url for the git.kernel.org was in the wrong subfolder:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux.git/commit?h=features&id=7fb2b2d512448cf0e914c4647a1cf02b52263702
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> >
> >> - change virtio_ccw.h to BSD license. The content of this file is really really trivial
> >> and it boils down to 2 defines, that can be easily reconstructed by looking at the virtio spec.
> >> Not even sure if something like this can be copyrighted.
> >
> > Yes. What prompted this was Greg's patch.
> >
> >>
> >> For reference the content of this file minus comments is
> >>
> >> - snip -
> >> #define KVM_VIRTIO_CCW_RING_ALIGN 4096
> >> #define KVM_S390_VIRTIO_CCW_NOTIFY 3
> >> - snip -
> >>
> >>
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> [..]

So for ccw if both you and Cornelia ACK, we'll be fine I think.
No one else touched this code.

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