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

[Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>]

On 11/02/11 18:28, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> 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).
According to cvs history both NetBSD and OpenBSD did that in 2003. Now
it's just about to compare whose content matches most with FreeBSD's
implementation. :)

Christoph

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