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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL v4 08/11] rdma: core logic


From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL v4 08/11] rdma: core logic
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:52:50 +0300

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:45:19AM -0400, Michael R. Hines wrote:
> On 04/18/2013 09:32 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:14:27AM -0400, Michael R. Hines wrote:
> >>On 04/18/2013 09:06 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >>>On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 09:59:52AM -0400, Michael R. Hines wrote:
> >>>>On 04/18/2013 03:58 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >>>>>The following comment applies to all of this code:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 07:07:17PM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> >>>>>>diff --git a/migration-rdma.c b/migration-rdma.c
> >>>>>>new file mode 100644
> >>>>>>index 0000000..1dff06f
> >>>>>>--- /dev/null
> >>>>>>+++ b/migration-rdma.c
> >>>>>>@@ -0,0 +1,2667 @@
> >>>>>>+/*
> >>>>>>+ *  Copyright (C) 2013 Michael R. Hines <address@hidden>
> >>>>>>+ *  Copyright (C) 2010 Jiuxing Liu <address@hidden>
> >>>>>By the way do you both really hold copyrights on this code?
> >>>>>It's not assigned to IBM?
> >>>>>If the later it should say:
> >>>>> Copyright IBM
> >>>>> Author: Michael R. Hines
> >>>>>Or some such.
> >>>>Acknowledged.
> >>>>
> >>>>>>+ *
> >>>>>>+ *  RDMA protocol and interfaces
> >>>>>>+ *
> >>>>>>+ *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or 
> >>>>>>modify
> >>>>>>+ *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published 
> >>>>>>by
> >>>>>>+ *  the Free Software Foundation; under version 2 of the License.
> >>>>>We prefer 2 or later for new code.
> >>>>Doesn't it say version 2 already?
> >>>version 2 != 'version 2 or later'. See COPYING at the top level in qemu.
> >>I'll duplicate the copyright used in Anthony's migration.c and
> >>tailor it to match.
> >Sigh.  Please don't copy migration.c, that includes a legacy header.
> >If you want to make things 2 or later, just take the
> >template from COPYING. There is a section 'How to Apply These Terms to
> >Your New Programs' there.  It tells you exactly what to put in the code.
> >It's 2013 so if you want to be hip you can replace the FSF snail mail
> >address with " if not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.  "
> >which is a bit shorter.
> 
> OK, I read the file, please review this version,
> and I will paste into migration-rdma.c:

Sure, that's what COPYING says. So yea, just get ack from
Jiuxing Liu.

> /*
>  *    RDMA Migration Protocol and Interfaces
>  *
>  *    Copyright (C) 2013  Michael R. Hines <address@hidden>
>  *    Copyright (C) 2010  Jiuxing Liu <address@hidden>

Except you said you will change this to Copyright IBM + Author.

>  *   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>  *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>  *   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
>  *   (at your option) any later version.
> 
>  *   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>  *   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>  *   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
>  *   GNU General Public License for more details.
>  *
>  *
>  *   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
> License along
>  *   with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
> Foundation, Inc.,
>  *   51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
>  */
> 
> 
> >
> >>>>>I'm guessing you need approval from Jiuxing Liu for this,
> >>>>>pls make him ack license change.
> >>>>He approves. He doesn't work for IBM anymore.
> >>>Does he approve version 2 or version 2 or later?
> >>>
> >>It doesn't matter - his contributions were made at IBM and he
> >>doesn't work for IBM anymore.
> >It's considered polite not to ignore author's wishes wrt licensing.
> >It's best to contact and get the ack if possible.  If not, please tell
> >the list and we'll consider the options.
> >
> >



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