From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752361AbdKHTAF (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Nov 2017 14:00:05 -0500 Received: from mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.158.5]:54110 "EHLO mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752281AbdKHTAD (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Nov 2017 14:00:03 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] s390/virtio: mark headers as BSD licensed From: Christian Borntraeger To: Cornelia Huck Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , Martin Schwidefsky , Heiko Carstens , linux-s390@vger.kernel.org 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> Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 19:59:56 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5ea37f22-920e-adc9-e7cf-f901faac92db@de.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 17110819-0040-0000-0000-000003EC17F4 X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 17110818-0041-0000-0000-000025EEB810 Message-Id: <1fe445dc-a2ee-3822-7c27-728c525b6d19@de.ibm.com> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:,, definitions=2017-11-08_03:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 priorityscore=1501 malwarescore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1015 lowpriorityscore=0 impostorscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1707230000 definitions=main-1711080252 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/08/2017 07:57 PM, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > So what about the following > > - leave kvm_virtio.h unchanged and we will delete this file via the s390 tree > > - change virtio_ccw.h to BSD license. The content of this file is really really trivial GPLv2 and BSD dual licence might be better I guess. > 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. > > > 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 -