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

From: Cornelia Huck
Date: Wed Nov 08 2017 - 13:15:42 EST


On Wed, 8 Nov 2017 19:12:25 +0100
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 11/08/2017 05:59 PM, 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>
> > ---
> >
> > since v1:
> > drop an extra comment chunk, reported by Cornelia
> >
> > arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/kvm_virtio.h | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>
> FWIW, this file will go away anyway.
> Looks like the following commit in the s390 feature branch
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux.git/commit/drivers/s390/virtio/Makefile?h=features&id=7fb2b2d512448cf0e914c4647a1cf02b52263702
> missed this file.

Can we simply rip this out?

>
>
> Regarding the virtio-ccw.h headers it is probably something that happened by accident.
> Back then Rusty (as an IBMer) proposed to change all virtio headers to BSD licence.

ISTR that the relicensing already went through... is that not the case?
I thought this was just a fixup to align with reality?

>
> > arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/virtio-ccw.h | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> > 2 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)