Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Import Linux headers for KVM and vhost

[Anthony Liguori]

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<address@hidden>   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?

> 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