From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:36998) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHJsM-0000WR-Tn for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2011 13:59:11 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHJsL-0003zI-QY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2011 13:59:10 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-f45.google.com ([209.85.213.45]:39417) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHJsL-0003zE-OD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2011 13:59:09 -0400 Received: by ywl41 with SMTP id 41so145193ywl.4 for ; Tue, 03 May 2011 10:59:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DC0426A.5090008@codemonkey.ws> Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 12:59:06 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4DC00BB1.7000008@siemens.com> <4DC031CC.1040902@siemens.com> <4DC03F21.6070507@codemonkey.ws> <4DC04177.6020702@siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <4DC04177.6020702@siemens.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Import Linux headers for KVM and vhost List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Jan Kiszka Cc: Peter Maydell , Rusty Russell , kvm , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Marcelo Tosatti , Alexander Graf , qemu-devel , Avi Kivity On 05/03/2011 12:55 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: > On 2011-05-03 19:45, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> On 05/03/2011 12:30 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: >>> On 3 May 2011 17:48, Jan Kiszka wrote: >>>> Kernel headers were automatically imported from current kvm.git, >>>> 93c016c8c4. Some are not covered by any license and can be considered >>>> GPLv2 with user space exception. >>> >>> Hmm. Can't we just get whoever owns those files to apply a suitable >>> copyright and license header to them? Committing files to qemu.git >>> which don't have a clear (and clearly stated) copyright/license seems >>> like a bad plan to me... >> >> Which are the headers in question? > > include/asm-powerpc: explicit GPLv2 > include/asm-s390: explicit GPLv2 > include/asm/x86: no license mentioned > include/linux/kvm*: no license mentioned > include/linux/vhost: no license mentioned Michael/Avi, can ya'll add copyrights/licenses as appropriate? > include/linux/virtio*: "BSB" > > The last group already popped up here during a license clearing of the > kernel. I contacted Rusty on them and got the answer "Standard 3 clause. > The 4 clause is incompatible with the GPL." That was OK for our > purposes, but I nevertheless asked Rusty to push a clarifying sentence > to the kernel - unfortunately this did not happen so far. Rusty, do you want to put together a patch with the full license or should I? Regards, Anthony Liguori > > Jan >