[task #15824] Submission of libvfio-user

[Thanos Makatos]

Follow-up Comment #4, task #15824 (project administration):

[comment #3 comment #3:]
> [comment #2 comment #2:]
> >
> > All our file have a copyright and license notice
> 
> I'm sorry, I didn't proceed after it turned out that the first non-trivial
file I checked, README.md, lacked the notices.
> 
I've added a license and copyright section at the end of README.md.

> > except
https://github.com/nutanix/libvfio-user/blob/master/include/vfio-user.h which
doesn't have an author. This file is based on another BSD3-licensed project
(SPDK).
> 
> That file also need a copyright notice (lists of the authors don't matter).

It does have a copyright notice but not an author, so I guess it's fine?

> 
> > Also, the license is in file LICENSE, does it have to be renamed to
COPYING?
> 
> In this case, it doesn't matter: you use a short permissive license, it
should be included in every file, anyway.
> 
> > We didn't include a copyright and license notice in trivial files (e.g.
.gitignore) as explained in
https://savannah.nongnu.org/maintenance/ValidNotices/.
> 
> This is correct.

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