[firefly] [PATCH 06/12] staging: usbip: userspace: add new list API

Valentina Manea valentina at rosedu.org
Thu Mar 6 07:45:27 EET 2014


On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 10:35:39PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 09:10:46PM +0200, Valentina Manea wrote:
> > > Add a new list API from CCAN.
> >
> > Why can't you just take the one from the kernel, as userspace is GPLv2
> > code, right?
> >
> > And are you sure CC0 is a "valid" license that you can mix with GPLv2
> > code?  I ask this seriously, as I have heard that CC0 really isn't even
> > a valid license at all, and if I was to accept this patch, I'm going to
> > have to go talk to some lawyers, which isn't going to be fun...
> >
>
> GNU people say it's compitable.
> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#CC0
>
> It's not a good license because it doesn't say anything about that there
> is no warranties.  Maybe other reasons as well.
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>
>
As Dan pointed out, it seems that CC0 is compatible with GPLv2.
However, if needed, I can change the lists API.

Thanks,
Valentina
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