From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755183AbaCEKRT (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2014 05:17:19 -0500 Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:40529 "EHLO userp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755060AbaCEKRO (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2014 05:17:14 -0500 Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 13:16:03 +0300 From: Dan Carpenter To: Greg KH Cc: Valentina Manea , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, shuah.kh@samsung.com, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, ly80toro@cip.cs.fau.de, tobias.polzer@fau.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, firefly@lists.rosedu.org, dominik.paulus@fau.de, ihadzic@research.bell-labs.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/12] staging: usbip: userspace: add new list API Message-ID: <20140305101603.GX27552@mwanda> References: <1393960252-21247-1-git-send-email-valentina.manea.m@gmail.com> <1393960252-21247-7-git-send-email-valentina.manea.m@gmail.com> <20140305063539.GB8816@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140305063539.GB8816@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 10:35:39PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 09:10:46PM +0200, Valentina Manea wrote: > > Add a new list API from CCAN. > > Why can't you just take the one from the kernel, as userspace is GPLv2 > code, right? > > And are you sure CC0 is a "valid" license that you can mix with GPLv2 > code? I ask this seriously, as I have heard that CC0 really isn't even > a valid license at all, and if I was to accept this patch, I'm going to > have to go talk to some lawyers, which isn't going to be fun... > GNU people say it's compitable. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#CC0 It's not a good license because it doesn't say anything about that there is no warranties. Maybe other reasons as well. regards, dan carpenter