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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xs.h cannot include xenctrl.h

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xs.h cannot include xenctrl.h
From: David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:25:56 +0100
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Anthony Liguori wrote:
> xs.h is LGPL.  xenctrl.h is GPL.  If xs.h includes xenctrl.h it
> implicitly makes xs.h GPL'd.  The following patches remove the xenctrl.h
> dependency in xs.h.

Why not just make all headers LGPL (or less restrictive, e.g. BSD)?
Don't many of these headers need to be referenced from OSes where software
is typically BSD-licensed, anyway?

(BSD without the advertising clause is compatible with GPL and LGPL.)

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David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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