Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xs.h cannot include xenctrl.h

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11 Oct 2005, at 17:25, David Hopwood wrote:

> Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > xs.h is LGPL.  xenctrl.h is GPL.  If xs.h includes xenctrl.h it
> > implicitly makes xs.h GPL'd.  The following patches remove the 
> > xenctrl.h
> > dependency in xs.h.
> Why not just make all headers LGPL (or less restrictive, e.g. BSD)?
> Don't many of these headers need to be referenced from OSes where 
> software
> is typically BSD-licensed, anyway?
>
> (BSD without the advertising clause is compatible with GPL and LGPL.)
libxenctrl is GPL. Anything that includes the header file ought also to 
be linking with libxenctrl, so just changing the header file license is 
something of a hack.
Getting rid of the dependency is the right answer I think.

 -- Keir


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