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From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
To: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
	linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] s390/virtio: mark headers as BSD licensed
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 19:59:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1fe445dc-a2ee-3822-7c27-728c525b6d19@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5ea37f22-920e-adc9-e7cf-f901faac92db@de.ibm.com>



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 -

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-08 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-08 16:59 [PATCH v2] s390/virtio: mark headers as BSD licensed Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-11-08 17:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-11-08 17:28   ` Cornelia Huck
2017-11-08 17:02 ` Cornelia Huck
2017-11-08 18:10 ` Heiko Carstens
2017-11-08 18:12 ` Christian Borntraeger
2017-11-08 18:15   ` Cornelia Huck
2017-11-08 18:33     ` Christian Borntraeger
2017-11-08 18:57       ` Christian Borntraeger
2017-11-08 18:59         ` Christian Borntraeger [this message]
2017-11-08 19:35         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-11-08 19:39           ` Christian Borntraeger
2017-11-08 19:58             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-11-09  8:29               ` Christian Borntraeger
2017-11-09  8:57                 ` Cornelia Huck
2017-11-09 19:48                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-11-08 19:41       ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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