licensing of intloop() from hurd/libddekit/interrupt.c

From: Robert Millan <rmh@xxxxxxx>
To: Samuel Thibault <sthibault@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 19:38:42 +0200

El 16/08/15 a les 15:14, Antti Kantee ha escrit:

* It includes code from other people under GPLv2; I'm not sure if this may be
an issue wrt licensing
policy of Rump as this is only targetted at the pci-userspace module. In any
case if you
think it's an issue let me know and we'll try to find a solution:
- intrthread() is heavily based on intloop() from hurd/libddekit/interrupt.c
...........

I'm not worried about GPL, but I am worried about someone using GPL accidentally when
they did not intend to. It's better if the code can offered under LGLP, but not a
requirement. One option would be to put Hurd support under "gpl/src-hurd". Or
just be very explicit about the licensing both in LICENSE and README.

Hi Samuel,

According to the changelog you added this code to the Debian package in 2012.
The
header in interrupt.c lists two people from University of Dresden. Given the DDE
heritage of the code, I'm not sure who's the author of intloop() routine, as it
is mostly Gnumach-aware code and seems unlikely to be part of DDE per se.

Do you recall where it came from?

Many thanks

--
Robert Millan

Follow-Ups:
- Re: licensing of intloop() from hurd/libddekit/interrupt.c
  - From: Samuel Thibault

References:
- [PATCH] Rump on GNU/Hurd (4): Userspace PCI I/O
  - From: Robert Millan
- Re: [PATCH] Rump on GNU/Hurd (4): Userspace PCI I/O
  - From: Antti Kantee

licensing of intloop() from hurd/libddekit/interrupt.c

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