Re: [PATCH v2] s390/virtio: mark headers as BSD licensed

From: Heiko Carstens
Date: Wed Nov 08 2017 - 13:10:49 EST


On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 06:59:21PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Virtio UAPI headers aren't just for UAPI, it's for guests/hypervisors as
> well. The s390 ones need to be BSD as well.
>
> Fixes: e2be04c7f995 ("License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with a license")
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>

I'm not sure why you say your patch fixes the above commit. It just added a
tag that described reality, while you are _proposing_ to relicense the
header file.
That's a completely different story.

> ---
>
> since v1:
> drop an extra comment chunk, reported by Cornelia
>
> arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/kvm_virtio.h | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/virtio-ccw.h | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 2 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/kvm_virtio.h b/arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/kvm_virtio.h
> index 7328367..1773693 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/kvm_virtio.h
> +++ b/arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/kvm_virtio.h
> @@ -1,4 +1,28 @@
> -/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */
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