From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [209.51.188.17]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A8955CD54AB for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2023 10:01:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qiXWy-0005gT-T2; Tue, 19 Sep 2023 06:00:33 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qiXWw-0005gJ-5k for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2023 06:00:30 -0400 Received: from frasgout.his.huawei.com ([185.176.79.56]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qiXWs-0002uv-DS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2023 06:00:29 -0400 Received: from lhrpeml500005.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.18.147.206]) by frasgout.his.huawei.com (SkyGuard) with ESMTP id 4RqcZk2YGWz6K6PB; Tue, 19 Sep 2023 17:59:26 +0800 (CST) Received: from localhost (10.202.227.76) by lhrpeml500005.china.huawei.com (7.191.163.240) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.2507.31; Tue, 19 Sep 2023 11:00:17 +0100 Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 11:00:16 +0100 To: "Daniel P. =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Berrang=E9?=" CC: Ira Weiny , Peter Maydell , Michael Tokarev , , Michael Tsirkin , Fan Ni , Philippe =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mathieu-Daud=E9?= , , Yuquan Wang , Dave Jiang , "Alison Schofield" , Vishal Verma , Dan Williams Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] hw/mem/cxl_type3: Add missing copyright and license notice Message-ID: <20230919110016.00007a9d@Huawei.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20230918150259.11165-1-Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> <20230918150259.11165-3-Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> <20230918180013.000035cf@Huawei.com> <6508bdc0befbc_3947ba294b2@iweiny-mobl.notmuch> Organization: Huawei Technologies Research and Development (UK) Ltd. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 4.1.0 (GTK 3.24.33; x86_64-w64-mingw32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Originating-IP: [10.202.227.76] X-ClientProxiedBy: lhrpeml100006.china.huawei.com (7.191.160.224) To lhrpeml500005.china.huawei.com (7.191.163.240) X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.176.79.56; envelope-from=jonathan.cameron@huawei.com; helo=frasgout.his.huawei.com X-Spam_score_int: -41 X-Spam_score: -4.2 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.2 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H5=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-to: Jonathan Cameron From: Jonathan Cameron via Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org On Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:47:06 +0100 Daniel P. Berrang=E9 wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 02:14:40PM -0700, Ira Weiny wrote: > > Jonathan Cameron wrote: =20 > > > On Mon, 18 Sep 2023 17:31:38 +0100 > > > Peter Maydell wrote: > > > =20 > > > > On Mon, 18 Sept 2023 at 16:04, Jonathan Cameron > > > > wrote: =20 > > > > > > > > > > This has been missing from the start. Assume it should match > > > > > with cxl/cxl-component-utils.c as both were part of early > > > > > postings from Ben. =20 > > > >=20 > > > > Sounds plausible -- is there an Intel person who could give us > > > > an acked-by for this? =20 > >=20 > > While we are at it; what about .../hw/mem/cxl_type3_stubs.c? > > =20 > > > >=20 > > > > (Ideally we wouldn't have let more gpl-2-only code into the > > > > codebase without a rationale...) =20 > >=20 > > I'm curious about this statement. Does the qemu project not want gpl v2 > > only code? =20 >=20 > Correct, this is explicitly stated in the LICENSE file: >=20 > [quote] > As of July 2013, contributions under version 2 of the GNU General Public > License (and no later version) are only accepted for the following files > or directories: bsd-user/, linux-user/, hw/vfio/, hw/xen/xen_pt*. > [/quote] >=20 > > I agree with Jonathan that this is the intention of Ben's > > initial submission; so from that PoV. =20 >=20 > Ideally we would get all QEMU CXL contributors to agree to re-license > to the GPL-2.0-or-later, unless the code has been copied from another > project which was GPL-2.0-only thus forcing our code. >=20 > >=20 > > Acked-by: Ira Weiny > >=20 > > Going forward I'd like to better understand the qemu communities view. = =20 >=20 > Please follow the LICENSE file which is explicit about QEMU's views > per the quoted text above. I'd be fine with relaxing these, but there are quite a few contributors so it will be a little difficult to establish. Given, for that to be useful we need to do all the CXL files, I'll post a v2 of this series setting this to GPL-v2-only and we can see if we can address relicencing at a later date. >=20 > With regards, > Daniel