Re: [PATCH 2/3] xen/ppc: Implement early serial printk on PaPR/pseries

From: "Shawn Anastasio" <shawn@anastas.io>
To: "George Dunlap" <george.dunlap@cloud.com>,
	"Julien Grall" <julien@xen.org>
Cc: "Andrew Cooper" <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	"Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@suse.com>,
	<tpearson@raptorengineering.com>,
	"George Dunlap" <george.dunlap@citrix.com>,
	"Stefano Stabellini" <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
	"Wei Liu" <wl@xen.org>,
	"Shawn Anastasio" <shawnanastasio@raptorengineering.com>,
	<xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] xen/ppc: Implement early serial printk on PaPR/pseries
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2023 09:59:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CTBM13ATH5UG.9MD2JPA6R42N@Shawns-Mac-mini.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+zSX=bZ7yx90geyCo3x0jxJy7X2f4E2XiazYEn0EDE+4O==pQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon Jun 12, 2023 at 10:19 AM CDT, George Dunlap wrote:
> Shawn,
>
> Again sorry that you've sort of bumped a hornet's nest here.
>
> Just to clarify, the situation as I understand it is:

Hi George,

No problem, and thank you for the detailed explanation.

> HOWEVER, as Andrew says, there is no official policy at this point; all the
> document say is that GPLv2-only is the default unless explicitly stated
> otherwise.
>
> Furthermore, the concerns raised by ARM's legal team were nearly a decade
> ago; it's not clear to me whether they still care that much.
>
> All that to say: If you don't mind and feel that you can do so legally,
> then consider switching to GPLv2-only; but if you don't want to and/or feel
> that you can't do so legally, feel free to leave it as-is.

I'll definitely keep this in mind when creating new files that don't need to
include GPLv2+ code.

>  -George

Thanks,
Shawn