On 22-Dec-17 10:04 AM, Hemant Agrawal wrote:
On 12/22/2017 2:13 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
Hi,
22/12/2017 06:57, Hemant Agrawal:
This patch moves the Linux kernel modules code to a common place.
- Separate the kernel module code from user space code.
- The GPL-2.0 licensed code is separated from the BSD-3 licensed
userspace
code
What is the benefit of separate things by license?
The separation makes it easy to identify and check the license.
Any patch introducing new file in *non-kern* folders shall not be
GPL-2.0 licensed. Or GPL-2.0 license is allowed only for kern folder.
The latter is better since BSD kernel modules are not GPL-licensed. So,
anything in the kern/kernel dir is not *necessarily* GPL-licensed, but
anything *outside* kern/kernel dir is *necessarily not* GPL-licensed.
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Thanks,
Anatoly
