Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v2 03/13] libxl: Provide a version of bsd's queue.h as _libxl_list.h

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 31 Oct 2011, at 09:43, Ian Campbell wrote:

> On Fri, 2011-10-28 at 19:37 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
>> @@ -18,6 +18,14 @@ GPLv2. See the FSF's definition of GPL compatibility:
>> And how this applies to a range of open source licenses:
>>  http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
>> 
>> +Additionally, the documentation file tools/libxl/external/bsd-queue.3
>> +has the 4-clause BSD licence.  It is present in the Xen source tree
>> +for reference purposes for people developing Xen.  It is not installed
>> +by "make install" and is bundled in the source only for convenience of
>> +distribution.  We do not intend that we or Xen users or distributors
>> +should make any reference to "features or use" of that manpage.
> 
> Anil pointed to the OpenBSD version of this page which has that clause
> removed. It would simplify things to use their version (of the header
> too for consistency)?  We are probably not comfortable with just
> rescinding the clause ourselves?

If you rescind it yourself, you'll need to go through the FreeBSD CVS history 
to make sure that there were no other contributors other than Berkeley. OpenBSD 
already did that in 2002 (and subsequent patches take on the new license, so it 
doesn't matter).

-anil
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