Re: [XEN PATCH for-4.17 3/4] xen: Add licence header to device_tree_defs.h

[Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 02/11/2022 11:28, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> This header have been created by moving code from other part of the
> project and miss a licence header. The original source code was some
> version of GPL or LGPL but we intend to have the public header to be
> MIT so they can be included easily in other projects.
>
> Part of device_tree_defs.h were moved from libxl_arm.c which is
> LGPL-2.1-only. And part were moved from device_tree.h that is
> GPL-2.0-only.
>
> Part of the original code were added by Julien Grall @ Citrix with a
> Linaro "hat" in commits c3ba52a84dd8 and 405c167f0ec9 and
> 886f34045bf0.
From this comment it is not entirely who you think the copyright owner 
is. IIRC, part of the agreement was that all code written with my Linaro 
"hat" would be copyrighted by Linaro rather than Citrix.
So I think we would need Linaro's agreement for the relicensing.

Cheers,

--
Julien Grall