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

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9 Jun 2016, at 17:34, Jason P Andryuk <jason.p.andryuk@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 11:16:10AM -0400, Daniel De Graaf wrote:

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>

Acked-by: Jason Andryuk <andryuk@xxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>

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