Re: [Xen-devel] coverage license information

[Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@xxxxxxx>]

Il 06/02/2013 12:22, Frediano Ziglio ha scritto:
> 
> I used an header from Linux which is derived from this GCC header when
> GCC was still GPL2 so GPL3 does not apply. Xen is GPL2 too so there is
> no problem using this header in Xen. The problem is including in the
> public headers.
> 
> Actually I changed patch to use the header only privately in Xen. I
> wrote a new header with the format that Xen export. However somebody
> could complaint that the format I used to export came from GCC ABI
> documented in the header.

ABIs are not copyrightable.  Or at least widely thought not to be so,
IANAL etc.

Paolo

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