On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 08:05:29AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Anthony Liguori <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> The headers say they are BSD licensed... but they include a GPLv2+ > >> header. Doesn't make a lot of sense, does it? > > > > It makes perfect sense: you're overthinking it. It just means that > > copying the BSD headers outside Linux is encouraged. > > Copying by hand and modifying. This patch series attempts to do it > automatically within QEMU. > > > And it's clearly nonsensical to claim the GPL on kernel headers means > > that userspace needs to be GPL. So please ignore this licensing > > red-herring. > > You're missing context, I suspect. This series is trying to > automatically copy the headers from Linux. We currently have a manually > copied version. > > The headers are not currently well suited for automatic copying because > (1) they use kernel types (2) they pull in dependencies from throughout > the kernel. > > This discussion comes down to whether we want to make it easier to > automatically copy the headers or do we maintain the status quo and > require manual munging to pull in the headers. > > Regards, > > Anthony Liguori Okay, what if I 1. add a stub if_ether.h with a couple of macros we want 2. replace the types during copying Would this address all concerns? > > > > And we'll bikeshed the headers in the standard when we have to :) They > > certainly don't need to be cut&paste into the kernel sources. > > > > Cheers, > > Rusty. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
