Re: [PATCH for 4.7] libxenvchan: Change license of header from Lesser GPL v2.1 to BSD

From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: "Wei Liu" <wei.liu2@citrix.com>, "Olaf Hering" <olaf@aepfle.de>,
	"Stefano Stabellini" <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
	"Keir Fraser" <keir@xen.org>,
	"Ian Campbell" <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
	"Anil Madhavapeddy" <anil@recoil.org>,
	"George Dunlap" <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
	"Andrew Cooper" <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	"Matthew Daley" <mattjd@gmail.com>,
	"Ian Jackson" <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	"Marek Marczykowski-Górecki" <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>,
	"Tim Deegan" <tim@xen.org>,
	"Roger Pau Monne" <roger.pau@entel.upc.edu>,
	lars.kurth.xen@gmail.com, "Jason Andryuk" <andryuk@aero.org>,
	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
	"Daniel De Graaf" <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for 4.7] libxenvchan: Change license of header from Lesser GPL v2.1 to BSD
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 15:30:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160609143031.GT28116@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1465482063-15623-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 10:21:03AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> As the xen/COPYING file says:
> "A few files are licensed under both GPL and a weaker BSD-style
> license. This includes all files within the subdirectory
> include/public, as described in include/public/COPYING. All such files
> include the non-GPL license text as a source-code comment. Although
> the license text refers generically to "the software", the non-GPL
> license applies *only* to those source files that explicitly include
> the non-GPL license text."
> 
> The libxenvchan.h is under xen/include/public/io directory
> and the xen/include/public/COPYING says:
> 
> "XEN NOTICE
> ==========
> 
> This copyright applies to all files within this subdirectory and its
> subdirectories:
>   include/public/*.h
>   include/public/hvm/*.h
>   include/public/io/*.h
> 
> The intention is that these files can be freely copied into the source
> tree of an operating system when porting that OS to run on Xen. Doing
> so does *not* cause the OS to become subject to the terms of the GPL.
> 
> All other files in the Xen source distribution are covered by version
> 2 of the GNU General Public License except where explicitly stated
> otherwise within individual source files.
> "
> Having the libxenvchan.h as Lesser GPL v2.1 where the COPYING file
> says otherwise is confusing to say at least.
> 
> Upon consulting with the authors of libxenvchan they said:
> "FWIW Neither I, nor ITL staff (as author of original libvchan library)
> have anything against converting it to the BSD-style licence."
> (Marek Marczykowski-Górecki,
> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2016-06/msg00995.html)
> so as such lets change it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
> 

Whose acks are required for this patch?

(Also CC Lars)

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