From: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: "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>,
"Jason Andryuk" <andryuk@aero.org>,
"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>,
"Wei Liu" <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
"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 16:35:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57598CCA.3000308@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1465482063-15623-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
On 09/06/16 15:21, 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>
>
> ---
> Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
> Cc: Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org>
> Cc: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
> cc: George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
To whatever extent it's helpful:
Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-06 21:36 libxenvchan license (lGPLv2.1) and xen/include/public/COPYING license? Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-06-07 13:36 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-06-07 15:54 ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-07 20:47 ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2016-06-09 14:21 ` [PATCH for 4.7] libxenvchan: Change license of header from Lesser GPL v2.1 to BSD Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-06-09 14:30 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-09 15:10 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-06-09 15:12 ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-09 15:16 ` Daniel De Graaf
2016-06-09 15:23 ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2016-06-09 16:34 ` Jason P Andryuk
2016-06-09 16:37 ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2016-06-09 15:27 ` Olaf Hering
2016-06-09 16:36 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-09 15:35 ` George Dunlap [this message]
2016-06-09 15:37 ` Roger Pau Monné
2016-06-09 15:43 ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-10 10:33 ` Ian Campbell
2016-06-10 13:07 ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-10 13:31 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-06-10 14:58 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-13 9:28 ` [PATCH v2 hopefully " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-06-13 10:28 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-10 15:00 ` [PATCH " Ian Campbell
2016-06-09 15:44 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-06-09 16:19 ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-10 13:08 ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-09 16:45 ` Olaf Hering
2016-06-09 16:57 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-09 17:00 ` Olaf Hering
2016-06-10 7:04 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-10 10:24 ` Matthew Daley
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