From: Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@citrix.com>
To: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@citrix.com>,
Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@citrix.com>,
"xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>,
"julien.grall@arm.com" <julien.grall@arm.com>,
"jbeulich@suse.com" <jbeulich@suse.com>,
"zhaoshenglong@huawei.com" <zhaoshenglong@huawei.com>,
Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 02/21] acpi: Prevent GPL-only code from seeping into non-GPL binaries
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 10:41:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D406CF28.2E103%lars.kurth@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22497.3069.664514.929595@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
On 20/09/2016 11:14, "Ian Jackson" <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
>Boris Ostrovsky writes ("[PATCH v4 02/21] acpi: Prevent GPL-only code
>from seeping into non-GPL binaries"):
>> Some code (specifically, introduced by commit 801d469ad ("[HVM] ACPI
>> support patch 3 of 4: ACPI _PRT table.")) has only been licensed under
>> GPLv2. We want to prevent this code from showing up in non-GPL
>> binaries which might become possible after we make ACPI builder code
>> available to users other than hvmloader.
>>
>> There are two pieces that we need to be careful about:
>> (1) A small piece of code in dsdt.asl that implements _PIC method
>> (2) A fragment of ASL generator in mk_dsdt.c that describes PCI
>> interrupt routing.
>>
>> The cleanest way to deal with this seems to be taking generatedi ASL
>> chunk from (2), adding it to dsdt.asl and keeping dsdt.asl GPL-only.
>
>This approach leaves us with the whole of dsdt.asl declared to be
>GPLv2. If you are trying to relicence it as LGPLv2.1 this is not a
>good idea.
>
>Using this approach, if at some later point we get the missing ack
>from Lenovo, we would have to redo the licence review for the whole of
>dsdt.asl. We would also have to ask Oracle's permission to relicense
>bits of the build system etc. !
>
>At the very least we should operate separate inbound/outbound
>licensing for this one file.
Boris was waiting for the appropriate text from me, which I sent to
this thread just before your reply came in. I proposed two parts
./COPYING and ./gpl/COPYING
>But as I wrote on IRC, I think it would also be best to split out
>_just the troublesome portions_ into their own files, and include them
>at build time. That way we have file-by-file source licensing.
As mentioned on IRC, if that can be done, that would preferable.
Aka, we would have a LGPLv2.1 dsdt.asl, which then would include
the troublesome portions from ./gpl/ optionally when the library
is built for gpl.
Regards
Lars
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Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-20 0:19 [PATCH v4 00/21] Make ACPI builder available to components other than hvmloader Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-20 0:19 ` [PATCH v4 01/21] acpi: Extract acpi info description into a separate ASL file Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-21 10:29 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-21 13:21 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-20 0:19 ` [PATCH v4 02/21] acpi: Prevent GPL-only code from seeping into non-GPL binaries Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-20 10:14 ` Ian Jackson
2016-09-20 10:41 ` Lars Kurth [this message]
2016-09-20 14:07 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-20 14:19 ` Ian Jackson
2016-09-20 14:58 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-20 10:32 ` Lars Kurth
2016-09-21 10:39 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-21 13:34 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-21 13:47 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-20 0:19 ` [PATCH v4 03/21] acpi: Re-license ACPI builder files from GPLv2 to LGPLv2.1 Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-20 10:17 ` Lars Kurth
2016-09-20 0:19 ` [PATCH v4 04/21] acpi/hvmloader: Collect processor and NUMA info in hvmloader Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-21 10:42 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-20 0:19 ` [PATCH v4 05/21] acpi/hvmloader: Set TIS header address " Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-20 0:19 ` [PATCH v4 06/21] acpi/hvmloader: Make providing IOAPIC in MADT optional Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-20 0:19 ` [PATCH v4 07/21] acpi/hvmloader: Build WAET optionally Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-20 0:19 ` [PATCH v4 08/21] acpi/hvmloader: Replace mem_alloc() and virt_to_phys() with memory ops Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-20 0:19 ` [PATCH v4 09/21] acpi/hvmloader: Translate all addresses when assigning addresses in ACPI tables Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-20 0:19 ` [PATCH v4 10/21] acpi/hvmloader: Link ACPI object files directly Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-21 10:52 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-21 11:29 ` Ian Jackson
2016-09-21 11:36 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-21 11:38 ` Ian Jackson
2016-09-21 11:40 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-21 13:45 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-21 15:05 ` Ian Jackson
2016-09-21 15:21 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-21 15:25 ` Ian Jackson
2016-09-21 21:03 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-20 0:19 ` [PATCH v4 11/21] acpi/hvmloader: Include file/paths adjustments Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-21 11:27 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-20 0:19 ` [PATCH v4 12/21] acpi: Move ACPI code to tools/libacpi Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-20 0:19 ` [PATCH v4 13/21] x86: Allow LAPIC-only emulation_flags for HVM guests Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-20 0:19 ` [PATCH v4 14/21] libacpi: Build DSDT for PVH guests Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-21 11:27 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-20 0:19 ` [PATCH v4 15/21] acpi: Makefile should better tolerate interrupts Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-20 0:19 ` [PATCH v4 16/21] libxc/libxl: Allow multiple ACPI modules Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-20 0:19 ` [PATCH v4 17/21] libxl/acpi: Add ACPI e820 entry Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-20 0:19 ` [PATCH v4 18/21] libxl/pvhv2: Include APIC page in MMIO hole for PVHv2 guests Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-20 0:19 ` [PATCH v4 19/21] ilibxl: Initialize domain build info before calling libxl__domain_make Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-21 11:29 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-20 0:19 ` [PATCH v4 20/21] libxl/acpi: Build ACPI tables for HVMlite guests Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-21 11:33 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-21 15:09 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-21 15:16 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-21 15:34 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-21 16:02 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-21 16:38 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-22 8:39 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-22 10:53 ` Wei Liu
2016-09-22 15:57 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-22 15:57 ` Wei Liu
2016-09-20 0:19 ` [PATCH v4 21/21] libxc/xc_dom_core: Copy ACPI tables to guest space Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-22 10:53 ` Wei Liu
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