Bug#919356: Licensing of include/linux/hash.h

2019-02-12 Thread Ben Finney
Jens Axboe writes: > On 2/11/19 11:27 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > > If, on the other hand, the file is to be free software, there would need > > to be a clear grant of some free software license to that work. > > FWIW, fio.c includes the following mention: > > * The license below covers all files

Bug#922112: Fwd: Re: Bug#919356: Licensing of include/linux/hash.h

2019-02-12 Thread Martin Steigerwald
If bouncing does not work, this will do. -- Martin--- Begin Message --- On 2/11/19 11:27 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > Martin Steigerwald writes: > >> Well the file has in its header: >> >> /* Fast hashing routine for a long. >>(C) 2002 William Lee Irwin III, IBM */ >> >> /* >> * Knuth

Bug#919356: Licensing of include/linux/hash.h

2019-02-12 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Jens Axboe - 12.02.19, 17:16: > On 2/11/19 11:27 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > > Martin Steigerwald writes: > >> Well the file has in its header: > >> > >> /* Fast hashing routine for a long. > >> > >>(C) 2002 William Lee Irwin III, IBM */ > >> > >> /* > >> > >> * Knuth recommends primes in

Bug#919356: Licensing of include/linux/hash.h

2019-02-12 Thread Martin Steigerwald
On 2/11/19 11:27 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > Martin Steigerwald writes: > >> Well the file has in its header: >> >> /* Fast hashing routine for a long. >>(C) 2002 William Lee Irwin III, IBM */ >> >> /* >> * Knuth recommends primes in approximately golden ratio to the maximum >> * integer

Bug#919356: Licensing of include/linux/hash.h

2019-02-12 Thread Jens Axboe
On 2/11/19 11:27 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > Martin Steigerwald writes: > >> Well the file has in its header: >> >> /* Fast hashing routine for a long. >>(C) 2002 William Lee Irwin III, IBM */ >> >> /* >> * Knuth recommends primes in approximately golden ratio to the maximum >> * integer

Bug#919356: Licensing of include/linux/hash.h

2019-02-11 Thread Ben Finney
Martin Steigerwald writes: > Well the file has in its header: > > /* Fast hashing routine for a long. >(C) 2002 William Lee Irwin III, IBM */ > > /* > * Knuth recommends primes in approximately golden ratio to the maximum > * integer representable by a machine word for multiplicative

Bug#919356: Licensing of include/linux/hash.h

2019-02-11 Thread Ben Finney
Martin Steigerwald writes: > Well the file has in its header: > > /* Fast hashing routine for a long. >(C) 2002 William Lee Irwin III, IBM */ > > /* > * Knuth recommends primes in approximately golden ratio to the maximum > * integer representable by a machine word for multiplicative

Bug#919356: Licensing of include/linux/hash.h

2019-02-11 Thread Ben Finney
Martin Steigerwald writes: > Well the file has in its header: > > /* Fast hashing routine for a long. >(C) 2002 William Lee Irwin III, IBM */ > > /* > * Knuth recommends primes in approximately golden ratio to the maximum > * integer representable by a machine word for multiplicative

Bug#919356: Licensing of include/linux/hash.h

2019-02-11 Thread Jens Axboe
On 2/11/19 3:50 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Adding in ax...@kernel.dk, as I am not sure whether the oracle.com address > from Jens is actually valid / up to date. > > Domenico Andreoli - 11.02.19, 08:22: >> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 12:08:32AM +0100, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: >> > > Mit 

Bug#919356: Licensing of include/linux/hash.h

2019-02-11 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2019, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > On Mon, 11 Feb 2019, Domenico Andreoli wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 12:08:32AM +0100, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: >>> It was [pointed out] by one of our license group that [hash.h] is the >>> same that has a GPL-2+ in [fio] which has a

Bug#919356: Licensing of include/linux/hash.h

2019-02-11 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2019, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 12:08:32AM +0100, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: >> It was [pointed out] by one of our license group that [hash.h] is the >> same that has a GPL-2+ in [fio] which has a signed-off-by. >> >> References: >> [pointed out]

Bug#919356: Licensing of include/linux/hash.h

2019-02-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
vger.kernel.org regards my mail as spam (probably due to it coming from Office 365 after our migration *sigh*). Thus if you like to have it archived there, please forward it yourself. Omitting oracle.com address of Jens, as its not valid. Adding in ax...@kernel.dk, as I am not sure whether the

Bug#919356: Licensing of include/linux/hash.h

2019-02-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Adding in ax...@kernel.dk, as I am not sure whether the oracle.com address from Jens is actually valid / up to date. Domenico Andreoli - 11.02.19, 08:22: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 12:08:32AM +0100, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > > On 1/23/19 9:50 AM, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > > > Ben Finney

Bug#919356: Licensing of include/linux/hash.h

2019-02-10 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 12:08:32AM +0100, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > On 1/23/19 9:50 AM, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > > Ben Finney writes: > >> Domenico Andreoli writes: [...] > >>> the only knot left is now the license of hash.h > >>> > >>> This file is also present in the kernel [0] with

Bug#919356: Licensing of include/linux/hash.h

2019-02-10 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
On 1/23/19 9:50 AM, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > Ben Finney writes: >> Domenico Andreoli writes: >> >>> the situation of dwarves-dfsg improved a lot over the weekend >> >> That's good to hear. What is the event you're referring to? Can you give >> a URL to something that describes this change? >

Bug#919356: Licensing of include/linux/hash.h

2019-01-23 Thread Domenico Andreoli
Ben Finney writes: > Domenico Andreoli writes: > > > the situation of dwarves-dfsg improved a lot over the weekend > > That's good to hear. What is the event you're referring to? Can you give > a URL to something that describes this change? Upstream (in CC) reacted to my request of

Bug#919356: Licensing of include/linux/hash.h

2019-01-15 Thread Domenico Andreoli
Hi Nadia, As part of the licensing assessment on pahole [0] that I am making for Debian, I realized that file hash.h in both pahole [1] and the kernel [2] comes without any licensing specification. Could you please make an explicit choice and maybe provide patches? Kind regards, Domenico [0]