Linaro approves the license change
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.lik...@linaro.org
<mailto:grant.lik...@linaro.org>>
> On 11 Nov 2022, at 13:51, Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marq...@arm.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> +Grant Likely from Linaro.
>
> In the following change, we need to change the license to MIT (from GPL) of
> one of Xen public headers which has a Linaro copyright.
>
> @Grant Likely: could you confirm that Linaro is agreeing for Xen Project to
> do such a change ?
>
> Kind regards
> Bertrand Marquis
>
>> On 2 Nov 2022, at 11:28, Anthony PERARD <anthony.per...@citrix.com> wrote:
>>
>> This header have been created by moving code from other part of the
>> project and miss a licence header. The original source code was some
>> version of GPL or LGPL but we intend to have the public header to be
>> MIT so they can be included easily in other projects.
>>
>> Part of device_tree_defs.h were moved from libxl_arm.c which is
>> LGPL-2.1-only. And part were moved from device_tree.h that is
>> GPL-2.0-only.
>>
>> Part of the original code were added by Julien Grall @ Citrix with a
>> Linaro "hat" in commits c3ba52a84dd8 and 405c167f0ec9 and
>> 886f34045bf0. The other part were added by Ian Campbell @ Citrix, with
>> commit 0c64527e7fc9.
>>
>> Resolves: xen-project/xen#35
>> Fixes: 1c898a9fec7e ("xen/arm: move a few DT related defines to
>> public/device_tree_defs.h")
>> Reported-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.per...@citrix.com>
>> ---
>>
>> Notes:
>> Julian was working @citrix until 2015.
>>
>> xen/include/public/device_tree_defs.h | 6 ++++++
>> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/xen/include/public/device_tree_defs.h
>> b/xen/include/public/device_tree_defs.h
>> index 228daafe81..9e80d0499d 100644
>> --- a/xen/include/public/device_tree_defs.h
>> +++ b/xen/include/public/device_tree_defs.h
>> @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
>> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT */
>> +/*
>> + * Copyright (c) 2013 Linaro Limited
>> + * Copyright (c) 2015 Citrix Systems, Inc
>> + */
>> +
>> #ifndef __XEN_DEVICE_TREE_DEFS_H__
>> #define __XEN_DEVICE_TREE_DEFS_H__
>>
>> --
>> Anthony PERARD
>>
>>
>
