From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
"open list:XEN NETWORK BACKEND DRIVER" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/3] xen-netback: fix license ident used in MODULE_LICENSE
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 14:34:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56A23E06.50403@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1453472147.4320.92.camel@citrix.com>
On 22/01/16 14:15, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-01-22 at 13:49 +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
>> 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?
>
> The fact what include/linux/license.h:license_is_gpl_compatible includes
> "Dual MIT/GPL" as an option seems to suggest that it is enough of a thing
> to be validly used as the contents of a MODULE_LICENSE() thing.
"Dual MIT/GPL" is used exactly once in the source in a file that has no
license text and there is no other documentation.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-22 14:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-22 12:34 [PATCH 0/3] xen: fix wrong idents in MODULE_LICENSE in some drivers Wei Liu
2016-01-22 12:34 ` [PATCH 1/3] xen-netback: fix license ident used in MODULE_LICENSE Wei Liu
2016-01-22 12:34 ` Wei Liu
2016-01-22 13:14 ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2016-01-22 13:49 ` Wei Liu
2016-01-22 13:49 ` [Xen-devel] " Wei Liu
2016-01-22 14:15 ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-22 14:34 ` David Vrabel
2016-01-22 14:34 ` David Vrabel [this message]
2016-01-22 20:25 ` [Xen-devel] " One Thousand Gnomes
2016-01-22 21:00 ` David Miller
2016-01-22 21:00 ` [Xen-devel] " David Miller
2016-01-23 14:54 ` Wei Liu
2016-01-23 14:54 ` [Xen-devel] " Wei Liu
2016-01-22 20:25 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-01-22 14:15 ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-22 13:14 ` David Vrabel
2016-01-22 12:34 ` [PATCH 2/3] xen-blkback: " Wei Liu
2016-01-22 12:44 ` Roger Pau Monné
2016-01-22 12:44 ` Roger Pau Monné
2016-01-22 12:34 ` Wei Liu
2016-01-22 12:34 ` [PATCH 3/3] xen-scsiback: " Wei Liu
2016-01-22 12:34 ` Wei Liu
2016-01-22 12:55 ` Juergen Gross
2016-01-22 12:55 ` Juergen Gross
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