linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] paravirt.h

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Date:	Sat, 19 Aug 2006 03:46:06 +0100
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
CC:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, Andi Kleen <ak@....de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	virtualization <virtualization@...ts.osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] paravirt.h

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> These are Linux specific operations.
>
> Without an _GPL you are in the grey area where courts have to decide 
> whether a module using this would be a derived work according to 
> copyright law in $country_of_the_court and therefore has to be GPL.
>
> With the _GPL, everything is clear without any lawyers involved.
>   

Hardly.  The _GPL is a hint as to the intent of the author, but it is no 
more than a hint.

My intent here (and I think the intent of the other authors) is not to 
cause breakage of things which currently work, so the _GPL is not 
appropriate for that reason.  Paravirt_ops is a restatement of many 
interfaces which already exist in Linux in a non-_GPL form, so making 
the structure _GPL is effectively relicensing them.

    J
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