On 10/17/2011 04:17 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
License fragmentation with respect to the de facto standard toolchain
(binutils)
is wrong.
Fragmentation with respect to the de factor standard kernel (Linux) is
wrong. We currently pull in code (mostly headers, although not exclusively)
from Linux too. That puts us between a rock and a hard place.
We are a userspace package, though, and kernel headers are not
copyrightable. Unlike perf we do not define APIs, we're just a consumer
even for KVM (by design!).
And when something we pull in is not headers (no example comes to mind),
the copyright holder is quite often one of two well-known employers.
Paolo
