Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/9] drm/xen-front: Introduce Xen para-virtualized frontend driver

[Roger Pau Monné]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:42:23AM +0200, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
> On 02/21/2018 11:17 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 10:03:34AM +0200, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xen/xen_drm_front.c
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
> > > +/*
> > > + *  Xen para-virtual DRM device
> > > + *
> > > + *   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> > > + *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> > > + *   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
> > > + *   (at your option) any later version.
> > > + *
> > > + *   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> > > + *   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> > > + *   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
> > > + *   GNU General Public License for more details.
> > Most Xen drivers in Linux use a dual GPL/BSD license, so that they can
> > be imported into other non GPL OSes:
> > 
> > This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> > modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2
> > as published by the Free Software Foundation; or, when distributed
> > separately from the Linux kernel or incorporated into other
> > software packages, subject to the following license:
> > 
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> > 
> > IMO it would be good to release this driver under the same license, so
> > it can be incorporated into other OSes.
> I am in any way expert in licensing, but the above seems to be
> /* SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR MIT) */
> At least this is what I see at [1] for MIT.
> Could you please tell which license(s) as listed at [1]
> would be appropriate for Xen drivers in terms of how it is
> expected to appear in the kernel code, e.g. expected
> SPDX-License-Identifier?

I would be fine with anything MIT/BSD-*/Apache-* like. In the Xen
community we have generally done dual GPL-2.0 MIT, so your proposed
tag looks fine IMO (I would also personally be fine with
MIT/BSD-*/Apache-* only).

The point is that it would be good to have the code under a more
permissive license so it can be integrated into non GPL OSes in the
future if needed, and that your code could be used as a reference for
that.

Thanks, Roger.