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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 13:49:43 +0000 From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com> To: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com> CC: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>, Xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>, Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>, "open list:XEN NETWORK BACKEND DRIVER" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/3] xen-netback: fix license ident used in MODULE_LICENSE On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 01:14:24PM +0000, David Vrabel wrote: > On 22/01/16 12:34, Wei Liu wrote: > > The comment at the beginning of the file is the canonical source of > > licenses for this module. Currently it contains GPL and MIT license. Fix > > the code to reflect the reality. > > "The MIT license" isn't really a thing. The closest is the X11 > license[1], but this not applicable here either since the text in the > drivers does not refer to X11 trademarks etc. > That was referring to the license ident string in Linux. If MIT license isn't a thing, why would Linux have it at all? > You can either use "GPL" which would be correct for a Linux kernel > module since the alternate only applies when distributed separately from > Linux ("or, when distributed separately from the Linux kernel or > incorporated into other software packages, subject to the following > license:"); or you can use "GPL and additional rights". > > (Or you could just leave it as-is since "Dual BSD/GPL" is close enough.) > No, I don't want to leave it as-is. That's not BSD license. I can change that to "GPL". That is acceptable to me. Wei. > David > > [1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#X11License >
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