From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <anatoly.burakov@intel.com> Received: from mga05.intel.com (mga05.intel.com [192.55.52.43]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C47C1B36D for <dev@dpdk.org>; Fri, 22 Dec 2017 14:05:35 +0100 (CET) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga006.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.51]) by fmsmga105.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 22 Dec 2017 05:05:34 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.45,441,1508828400"; d="scan'208";a="4935201" Received: from aburakov-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.252.17.195]) ([10.252.17.195]) by orsmga006.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 22 Dec 2017 05:05:33 -0800 To: dev@dpdk.org References: <1513922231-15554-1-git-send-email-hemant.agrawal@nxp.com> <2388140.F1AUfV8GGA@xps> <1e293147-9c72-9e77-97cb-9aabc9e5af39@nxp.com> From: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com> Message-ID: <2f41a843-edb4-04ac-cc12-d27b55424934@intel.com> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 13:05:32 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1e293147-9c72-9e77-97cb-9aabc9e5af39@nxp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] Create kern folder for Linux kernel modules X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions <dev.dpdk.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://dpdk.org/ml/options/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/> List-Post: <mailto:dev@dpdk.org> List-Help: <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://dpdk.org/ml/listinfo/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 13:05:35 -0000 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