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Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 21:48:51 +0200 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com> To: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...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 Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 09:29:32AM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > > > On 11/08/2017 08:58 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 08:39:11PM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 11/08/2017 08:35 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > >>> On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 07:57:28PM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > >>>> So what about the following > >>>> > >>>> - leave kvm_virtio.h unchanged and we will delete this file via the s390 tree > >>> > >>> Seems to be used by kvm_virtio.c - are you removing that too? > >> > >> Yes, so sorry my first url for the git.kernel.org was in the wrong subfolder: > >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux.git/commit?h=features&id=7fb2b2d512448cf0e914c4647a1cf02b52263702 > >> > >> > >>> > >>>> - change virtio_ccw.h to BSD license. The content of this file is really really trivial > >>>> 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. > >>> > >>> Yes. What prompted this was Greg's patch. > >>> > >>>> > >>>> 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 - > >>>> > >>>> > >> > >> [..] > > > > > > So for ccw if both you and Cornelia ACK, we'll be fine I think. > > No one else touched this code. > > A patch that changes virtio_ccw.h to a dual gpl2/bsd licence is > > Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com> > > as it matches the original intent of the virtio header relicensing > from 2008 while at the same time covers the fact that the whole > kernel is GPL2. Will do.
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