linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] s390/virtio: mark headers as BSD licensed

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Message-Id: <1fe445dc-a2ee-3822-7c27-728c525b6d19@de.ibm.com>
Date:   Wed, 8 Nov 2017 19:59:56 +0100
From:   Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
To:     Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>
Cc:     "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] s390/virtio: mark headers as BSD licensed



On 11/08/2017 07:57 PM, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> So what about the following
> 
> - leave kvm_virtio.h unchanged and we will delete this file via the s390 tree
> 
> - change virtio_ccw.h to BSD license. The content of this file is really really trivial

GPLv2 and BSD dual licence might be better I guess.

> and it boils down to 2 defines, that can be easily reconstructed by looking at the virtio spec.
> Not even sure if something like this can be copyrighted.
> 
> 
> For reference the content of this file minus comments is
> 
> - snip -
> #define KVM_VIRTIO_CCW_RING_ALIGN 4096
> #define KVM_S390_VIRTIO_CCW_NOTIFY 3
> - snip -