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

Christian Borntraeger
2017-11-08T19:39:11Z

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?

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

>
>> - 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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