On 06/09/2016 10:21 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
As the xen/COPYING file says:
"A few files are licensed under both GPL and a weaker BSD-style
license. This includes all files within the subdirectory
include/public, as described in include/public/COPYING. All such files
include the non-GPL license text as a source-code comment. Although
the license text refers generically to "the software", the non-GPL
license applies *only* to those source files that explicitly include
the non-GPL license text."
The libxenvchan.h is under xen/include/public/io directory
and the xen/include/public/COPYING says:
"XEN NOTICE
==========
This copyright applies to all files within this subdirectory and its
subdirectories:
include/public/*.h
include/public/hvm/*.h
include/public/io/*.h
The intention is that these files can be freely copied into the source
tree of an operating system when porting that OS to run on Xen. Doing
so does *not* cause the OS to become subject to the terms of the GPL.
All other files in the Xen source distribution are covered by version
2 of the GNU General Public License except where explicitly stated
otherwise within individual source files.
"
Having the libxenvchan.h as Lesser GPL v2.1 where the COPYING file
says otherwise is confusing to say at least.
Upon consulting with the authors of libxenvchan they said:
"FWIW Neither I, nor ITL staff (as author of original libvchan library)
have anything against converting it to the BSD-style licence."
(Marek Marczykowski-Górecki,
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2016-06/msg00995.html)
so as such lets change it.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.w...@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgde...@tycho.nsa.gov>
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