Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for 4.7] libxenvchan: Change license of header from Lesser GPL v2.1 to BSD

[Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/09/2016 10:21 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> As the xen/COPYING file says:
> "A few files are licensed under both GPL and a weaker BSD-style
> license. This includes all files within the subdirectory
> include/public, as described in include/public/COPYING. All such files
> include the non-GPL license text as a source-code comment. Although
> the license text refers generically to "the software", the non-GPL
> license applies *only* to those source files that explicitly include
> the non-GPL license text."
>
> The libxenvchan.h is under xen/include/public/io directory
> and the xen/include/public/COPYING says:
>
> "XEN NOTICE
> ==========
>
> This copyright applies to all files within this subdirectory and its
> subdirectories:
>   include/public/*.h
>   include/public/hvm/*.h
>   include/public/io/*.h
>
> The intention is that these files can be freely copied into the source
> tree of an operating system when porting that OS to run on Xen. Doing
> so does *not* cause the OS to become subject to the terms of the GPL.
>
> All other files in the Xen source distribution are covered by version
> 2 of the GNU General Public License except where explicitly stated
> otherwise within individual source files.
> "
> Having the libxenvchan.h as Lesser GPL v2.1 where the COPYING file
> says otherwise is confusing to say at least.
>
> Upon consulting with the authors of libxenvchan they said:
> "FWIW Neither I, nor ITL staff (as author of original libvchan library)
> have anything against converting it to the BSD-style licence."
> (Marek Marczykowski-Górecki,
> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2016-06/msg00995.html)
> so as such lets change it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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