From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753760AbdKII5p (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Nov 2017 03:57:45 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:33310 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753739AbdKII5o (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Nov 2017 03:57:44 -0500 Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 09:57:37 +0100 From: Cornelia Huck To: Christian Borntraeger Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , Martin Schwidefsky , Heiko Carstens , linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] s390/virtio: mark headers as BSD licensed Message-ID: <20171109095737.6a3082f7.cohuck@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <778f7cff-5a67-ce97-3c79-7ae71bb0c696@de.ibm.com> References: <1510160307-13235-1-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <9c2debae-5c00-75ad-bc4d-13af9c4f431d@de.ibm.com> <20171108191531.2d2f7210.cohuck@redhat.com> <7ab1b0f9-6db2-1d49-3bc6-320e95c71d5b@de.ibm.com> <5ea37f22-920e-adc9-e7cf-f901faac92db@de.ibm.com> <20171108213424-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <93547c07-dfab-70d5-6ed6-aada14670406@de.ibm.com> <20171108215816-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <778f7cff-5a67-ce97-3c79-7ae71bb0c696@de.ibm.com> Organization: Red Hat GmbH MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.31]); Thu, 09 Nov 2017 08:57:44 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 9 Nov 2017 09:29:32 +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 > > 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. > FWIW, that would be Acked-by: Cornelia Huck as well (I wrote the header, but any copyright is with IBM).