On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 12:59:06PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 05/03/2011 12:55 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: > >On 2011-05-03 19:45, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >>On 05/03/2011 12:30 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: > >>>On 3 May 2011 17:48, Jan Kiszka<jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>>Kernel headers were automatically imported from current kvm.git, > >>>>93c016c8c4. Some are not covered by any license and can be considered > >>>>GPLv2 with user space exception. > >>> > >>>Hmm. Can't we just get whoever owns those files to apply a suitable > >>>copyright and license header to them? Committing files to qemu.git > >>>which don't have a clear (and clearly stated) copyright/license seems > >>>like a bad plan to me... > >> > >>Which are the headers in question? > > > >include/asm-powerpc: explicit GPLv2 > >include/asm-s390: explicit GPLv2 > >include/asm/x86: no license mentioned > >include/linux/kvm*: no license mentioned > >include/linux/vhost: no license mentioned > > Michael/Avi, can ya'll add copyrights/licenses as appropriate? All kernel is GPLv2 with userspace exceptions. The explicit GPLv2 licenses are likely uninitentional. So I don't really believe licenses are applicable in headers, we see how this creates confusion. Just place the kernel COPYING file into the include directory? > >include/linux/virtio*: "BSB" > > > >The last group already popped up here during a license clearing of the > >kernel. I contacted Rusty on them and got the answer "Standard 3 clause. > > The 4 clause is incompatible with the GPL." That was OK for our > >purposes, but I nevertheless asked Rusty to push a clarifying sentence > >to the kernel - unfortunately this did not happen so far. > > Rusty, do you want to put together a patch with the full license or > should I? > > Regards, > > Anthony Liguori > > > > >Jan > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
