From: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] Create kern folder for Linux kernel modules
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 13:05:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2f41a843-edb4-04ac-cc12-d27b55424934@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1e293147-9c72-9e77-97cb-9aabc9e5af39@nxp.com>
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.
--
Thanks,
Anatoly
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-22 13:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-22 5:57 Hemant Agrawal
2017-12-22 8:43 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-12-22 10:04 ` Hemant Agrawal
2017-12-22 11:38 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-12-22 13:59 ` Wiles, Keith
2017-12-22 14:17 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-12-22 14:51 ` Wiles, Keith
2017-12-22 16:25 ` Hemant Agrawal
2017-12-22 14:28 ` Van Haaren, Harry
2017-12-22 13:05 ` Burakov, Anatoly [this message]
2017-12-26 6:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] kernel folder for Linux and BSD modules Hemant Agrawal
2017-12-26 8:10 ` Tiwei Bie
2017-12-26 8:50 ` Hemant Agrawal
2017-12-26 8:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Hemant Agrawal
2018-01-10 6:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Hemant Agrawal
2018-01-10 11:04 ` Richardson, Bruce
2018-01-12 15:00 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] " Hemant Agrawal
2018-02-21 8:09 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] " Hemant Agrawal
2018-02-21 10:56 ` Bruce Richardson
2018-02-22 6:09 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7] " Hemant Agrawal
2018-03-21 18:42 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-03-22 10:27 ` Bruce Richardson
2018-03-22 10:48 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-03-22 16:27 ` Thomas Monjalon
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