Re: [PATCH v4 13/15] uapi: hyperv: Add mshv driver headers defining hypervisor ABIs

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 11:29:42PM +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> > > > > diff --git a/include/uapi/hyperv/hvgdk.h b/include/uapi/hyperv/hvgdk.h
> > > > > new file mode 100644
> > > > > index 000000000000..9bcbb7d902b2
> > > > > --- /dev/null
> > > > > +++ b/include/uapi/hyperv/hvgdk.h
> > > > > @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
> > > > > +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT */
> > > > 
> > > > That's usually not a good license for a new uapi .h file, why did you
> > > > choose this one?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > This is chosen so that other Microsoft developers who don't normally
> > > work on Linux can review this code.
> > 
> > Sorry, but that's not how kernel development is done.  Please fix your
> > internal review processes and use the correct uapi header file license.
> > 
> > If your lawyers insist on this license, that's fine, but please have
> > them provide a signed-off-by on the patch that adds it and have it
> > documented why it is this license in the changelog AND in a comment in
> > the file so we can understand what is going on with it.
> > 
> 
> We went through an internal review with our legal counsel regarding the
> MIT license. We have an approval from them.
> 
> Let me ask if using something like "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note OR
> MIT" is possible.

That marking makes no sense from a legal point of view, please work with
your lawyers as it seems they do not understand license descriptions
very well :(

thanks,

greg k-h